One Yellow Eye

By: Leigh Radford

‘Compulsively readable’
OLIVIE BLAKE, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six and Masters of Death

Full of heartbreak, revulsion and black humour, a scientist desperately searches for a cure to a zombie virus while also hiding a monumental secret – her undead husband.

Kesta’s husband Tim was the last person to be bitten in a zombie pandemic. A scientist by day, she spends her evenings in group therapy with others who have also lost a loved one to the virus. The country is in a period of respite, seemingly having rounded up everyone affected.

But Kesta has a secret.

Tim may have been bitten, but he’s not quite dead yet. In fact, he’s tied to a bed in her spare room. And she’s made him a promise: find a cure, bring him back.

Kesta juggles intensive work days under the microscope alongside Tim’s care, slipping him stolen drugs to keep him docile, knowing she is hiding the only zombie left. But a cure seems increasingly out of reach. Kesta is running out of drugs - and time. Can she save her husband before he is discovered? Or worse . . . will they trigger another outbreak?

‘Darkly comedic, gruesome and compassionate’ – Ashley Tate, bestselling author of Twenty Seven Minutes

©2025 Leigh Radford (P)2025 Macmillan Publishers International Limited

Critic reviews

You wouldn't expect a zombie novel to have so much to say about love. Radford's suspenseful One Yellow Eye is driven by various fears – the fear of a virus that could return to rip the world apart, the fear of a terrible wrongdoing being discovered – but in the end the zombies take a backseat to the greatest horror of all: losing the one closest to our heart (Mason Coile, author of William)

Witty, propulsive and heartbreaking. Radford’s dark, zombie love-story is intelligent and refreshing (Rebecca Netley, author of The Whistling)