The zombies aren’t a major concern until the second book, but the “salt plague” in Kate Elliott’s Cold Magic/Spiritwalker trilogy is eventually revealed to be a zombie-plague that’s spread through bites. For most of the first book, they’re a background issue (the Malian empire was decimated by them, but decamped to Britain to form an Afro-Celtic aristocracy. The first book is mostly set in London, subsequent adventure take them to zombie quarantine island)
It’s a Napoleonic-Wars-AU where the Ice Age never ended and proximity to glaciers enhances magic, which effected world politics and geography. The series focuses on a pair of cousins and the insecure heir to a mage-house as they deal with everything from the Wild Hunt to dragons to radical political movements headed by the intelligent descendants of troodons.
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The zombies aren’t a major concern until the second book, but the “salt plague” in Kate Elliott’s Cold Magic/Spiritwalker trilogy is eventually revealed to be a zombie-plague that’s spread through bites. For most of the first book, they’re a background issue (the Malian empire was decimated by them, but decamped to Britain to form an Afro-Celtic aristocracy. The first book is mostly set in London, subsequent adventure take them to zombie quarantine island)
It’s a Napoleonic-Wars-AU where the Ice Age never ended and proximity to glaciers enhances magic, which effected world politics and geography. The series focuses on a pair of cousins and the insecure heir to a mage-house as they deal with everything from the Wild Hunt to dragons to radical political movements headed by the intelligent descendants of troodons.