The brand new YA dystopian fantasy from the author of Those Who Survive!
“It doesn’t get easy. You never get used to it. You just have to accept it. This is the life of a soldier.”
A life none of us chose.
After six months in service for the Sector Protection Force—SPORE—Ashley Brown is exactly what she never wanted to be: an expertly trained killer who can take down the Infected in droves. Assigned to a new crew on the trail of a weapon that has the power to save humanity, Ashley is careful to keep her comrades at a distance, knowing there’s no point letting them in today when she’ll probably stumble across their remains tomorrow.
But when their trail leads them into a den of darkness and death, everything changes in an instant, and Ashley will be forced to consider: is one life worth everyone else’s?
Praise for K.N. Milde:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘This was everything that I was looking for … K. N. Milde has a strong writing style and I am excited for more’
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘It's been SO long since I read a good dystopian / post-apocalyptic book … This book has total The Last Of Us vibes … If you are a fan of zombies, dystopia and post-apocalyptic stories, make sure you give it a go’
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Omg! How can a person write a book like this? Is K.N. Milde a genius? Must be! It's a masterpiece!’
About the author
K.N. Milde is an Algerian writer and artist living in Germany. Her debut novel, THOSE WHO SURVIVE, came out in March 2025 with HarperCollins’s One More Chapter, and Book Two is scheduled for publication in March 2026.
In 2018, she graduated university with a license degree in clinical psychology, and mental health tends to be a big focus in her writing. While most of her work has a speculative lean, whether she is writing YA or Adult, K.N. strives to write accessible work that everyone can read and enjoy no matter their background.
When not writing, she’s either drawing her characters, playing stressful or relaxing videogames (no in-between), or being a cat mama.
