Karen Healey is a young adult novelist. She is the author of the urban fantasies Guardian of the Dead and The Shattering, both set in New Zealand, and the sci-fi adventures When We Wake and When We Run. Guardian of the Dead won the 2010 Aurealis Award for Best YA Novel and was a finalist for the William C. Morris Award.
An excerpt from Karen Healey's dystopian novel, When We Wake.