High School Sucks. It's worse when you're dead.Ohneka Falls is a small, Western New York town where everyoneknows everyone and nothing of note happens. Ani Romero is a sixteen-year-old girl who wants to play sports, hang out, and kiss Mike, her middle-school crush. A childhood carrier of the zombie virus, she died at fourteen but didn't become a mindless, brain-eating monster. Her controlling mother forces her to join the emo crowd to hide her condition behind a wall of black clothes and makeup, and her friends abandon her.When creeper Dylan learns her secret, he falls into obsession,with Ani and with death. She bites him in self-defense. Persecuted by the jocks and ignored by Mike, Ani struggles through the motions of life hoping her other's research unveils a cure, or Dylan dooms them all to a hungry, walking death.As her emo facade crumbles in the face of jealousy and obsession,Ani knows that the worst thing she can do is be true to herself.