She takes on the quest to get him back, enlisting the aid of the city's outcast supernatural defense force, called Spirit-Hunters. Eleanor Fitt, the 16-year-old protagonist, finds out during a zombie attack that her brother has been taken hostage. The Something Strange and Deadly series is set in Philadelphia during the time of the 1876 World Fair while an army of the dead is plaguing the city. A Dawn Most Wicked, a prequel novella to the series, was published a month before the second title of trilogy in 2013. Her debut novel Something Strange and Deadly was released in July 2012, followed by its sequel A Darkness Strange and Lovely, released in July 2013, and Strange and Ever After in July 2014. Career ĭennard focused on writing for publication upon leaving her PhD program. She currently lives in the Midwestern US. In 2009, she chose to forego venturing a PhD and joined her husband in Germany. This work led her around the world, to almost all of the seven continents, with the exception of Asia. She originally planned to major in English at University of Georgia, but was 'sidetracked by science' and obtained a bachelor's degrees in fisheries and statistics instead, and then received her master's in marine biology at the Great Lakes Institute for environmental research in Windsor, Ontario, with the intention of solving the problem of overfishing. Susan Dennard was born on February 25, 1984, in the state of Virginia, but primarily grew up in Dalton, Georgia.

Her debut novel, Something Strange and Deadly, was published in 2012 by HarperCollins. Susan Dennard (born February 25, 1984) is an American YA fantasy author.

A Dawn Most Wicked by Susan Dennard