Boneshaker by Cherie Priest is March's selection. In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomer to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. Thus was Dr. Blue's Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue's widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenage boy to support, but she and Ezekial are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history. His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive. Kelly Link calls it, " A marvelous book crammed with readerly pleasures—zombies, pirates, cracking adventures, historical conceits, and characters that make you wish you could linger inside it long after turning the final page. Cherie Priest is one of my favorite fantasists."