Rebel Darling

Find someone who makes the world worth saving.
In what was once New York City, where the government has fallen and the violent, martial Keepers now rule, teenage Hannah Darling possesses the cure to the world's deadly virus within her veins. When she's captured by the Keepers and sentenced to death for leading the Resistance, her only hope lies in Anthony Fletcher--once a childhood friend, then a school rival, and now son of her greatest enemy. No one is more surprised than Hannah when Anthony is willing to hide her. No one except Anthony himself.
Anthony barely recognizes the wounded and traumatized Hannah as the girl who launched the Resistance at only 15. But Hannah is still determined to end the Keepers violent rule, and she's now desperate enough to escape the city towards a CDC that might be in ruins. So she sets off on a dangerous cross-country odyssey with Fletcher as her reluctant companion. Together, they face not only the infected, Zombie-like Strangers, but the relentless pursuit of the Keepers. As their bond deepens, they discover startling truths about themselves and each other, realizing that, like their pasts, their futures are irrevocably intertwined.
But when betrayal strikes from an unexpected source, Hannah must race against time to secure the vaccine that could save humanity, unaware that Anthony—the boy with the secrets, the boy she's fallen for—is the one who holds the power to save their world ... or let it burn.
 Combining non-stop action with a page-turning enemies to lovers romance,   Rebel Darling   is the perfect YA novel for fans of   The Last of Us .

Valerie Best is the author of Rebel Darling and is a runner, a reader, and a 3rd grade hula hoop champ. She studied English Literature at Brooklyn College with a special interest in women in literature. She utilizes this mainly for critical readings of Babysitters Club books (with a special emphasis on the Super Specials). Rebel Darling is the first of three books she has upcoming with 8th Note Press Valerie lives in New York with her family, where she spends half of her time hunched over her desk writing, the other half unsuccessfully trying to convince people she invented girl dinner simply because she's really into crackers.