Wayward - A Novel

If King had written a sequel to The Stand, it might look something like this monumental epic of a story. James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Kingdom of Bones

As great as Wanderers was, Wayward is better. Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Road of Bones

Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to sleepwalk across the country to a destination only they knew. They were followed on their quest by the shepherds: friends and family who gave up everything to protect them.

Their secret destination: Ouray, a small town in Colorado that would become one of the last outposts of civilization. Because the sleepwalking epidemic was only the first in a chain of events that led to the end of the world and the birth of a new one.

The survivors, sleepwalkers and shepherds alike, have a dream of rebuilding human society. Among them are Benji, the scientist struggling throu gh grief to lead the town; Marcy, the former police officer who wants only to look after the people she loves; and Shana, the teenage girl who became the first shepherd and an unlikely hero whose courage will be needed again.

Because the people of Ouray are not the only survivors, and the world they are building is fragile. The forces of cruelty and brutality are amassing under the leadership of self-proclaimed president Ed Creel. And in the very heart of Ouray, the most powerful survivor of all is plotting its own vision for the new world: Black Swan, the A.I. who imagined the apocalypse.

Against these threats, Benji, Marcy, Shana, and the rest have only one hope: one another. Because the only way to survive the end of the world is together.

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Chuck Wendig s Wayward proves that there s always more story to tell. If King had written a sequel to The Stand, it might look something like this monumental epic of a story. I don t think I ll get this book out of my head for a long time maybe never. James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Kingdom of Bones

As great as Wanderers was, Wayward is better: The best post-apocalyptic fiction combines grim extrapolation, great characters, and hope. Wendig nails it! Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Road of Bones

Chuck Wendig has done it again. Salient, masterful, this is an author at the top of his game. Adam Christopher, New York Times bestselling author of Empire State

IMAX-scale bleeding-edge techno-horror from a writer with a freshly sharpened scalpel. Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Wanderers

This career-defining epic deserves its inevitable comparisons to Stephen King s The Stand. Publishers Weekly (star red review)

A suspenseful, twisty, satisfying, surprising, thought-provoking epic. Harlan Coben

A true tour de force. Erin Morgenstern

A masterpiece with prose as sharp and heartbreaking as Station Eleven. Peng Shepherd

An inventive, fierce, uncompromising, stay-up-way-past-bedtime masterwork. Paul Tremblay

An American epic for these times. Charles Soule

Epic, electrifying, poignant Wanderers is a tsunami of a novel. Meg Gardiner

A riveting examination of America fiction that feels more real than reality itself. Scott Sigler

Beautiful and harrowing and timely as hell in its depiction of a very real world on the edge of the abyss. Richard Kadrey

If you ever wanted to know what America s soul might look like, here s its biography. Rin Chupeco

A brilliant Hollywood-blockbuster of a novel. Peter Clines