‘Omg! How can a person write a book like this? Is K.N. Milde a genius? Must be! It's a masterpiece!’

Tomorrow is Recruitment Day.

Or, as I like to call it, Sign Your Suicide Contract Day.

And like all the sane people alive-who are few, both in terms of sanity and life status-I don't plan on sticking around for it…

The Sector Protection Force-SPORE-is all that stands between humanity and the infected. Like everyone else her age, fifteen-year-old Ashley is forced to join the training program to become a soldier - she just didn't think her attempt to escape recruitment would backfire so badly. Left for dead by her own friends, Ash is rescued by SPORE - the very people who killed her father. Now, not only is she stuck with a bunch of suicidal recruits who worship everything she hates about SPORE, she also owes them her life.

On the bright side, Ash is perfectly positioned to get what she's always wanted: an escape to the outside world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

K. N. Milde is an Algerian writer and artist living in Germany. Her debut novel, THOSE WHO SURVIVE, is the first book in The Last Recruits series; her love letter to the zombie media. It was published in March 2025 with HarperCollins’s One More Chapter, and the series will continue in THOSE WHO FIGHT, scheduled for publication in March 2026.

K. N. graduated university in 2018 with a license degree in clinical psychology, and mental health tends to be a big focus in her writing. An avid lover of speculative fiction and the exploration of gray morality, whether she’s 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, playing stressful or relaxing videogames (no in-between), or being a cat mama.