"The thing no one tells you about surviving, the act of holding out, is how many hours are nothing because nothing happens. They don’t tell you about how you can share your deepest secrets with someone, or kiss them, and the next hour it’s meaningless because not everything can mean something all the time, or else you’d be crushed under the weight of it. They don’t tell you how you will float through days. You’re on autopilot—here but not really here. Sleepwalking. And then, every so often, you are awake."

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The Breakfast Club meets 28 Days Later in this revised and expanded edition of Courtney Summers’s cult classic about a traumatized young woman forced to survive the zombie apocalypse.

Sloane Price knows there are worse things than the end of the world, so when the zombie apocalypse happens, the opportunity to escape her violent home life offers no relief. She’s already lost the one thing that matters most—her sister—and now seems like the perfect time to give up.

But when she inadvertently ends up barricaded in her high school with five other teens, their desperate and volatile bids for survival force a series of impossible decisions. As the days creep by and the dead close in, Sloane must confront everything she thought she knew about life, death, survival, and sacrifice and, once and for all, make a choice.

Joined together for the first time in this special “director’s cut” edition, This Is Not a Test and its novella sequel Please Remain Calm explore the forces that tether us to life—and to each other—in our darkest times.

In stores Spring 2026 from @bindery_books x @theinkyphoenix