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A dark young adult Western fantasy about a teen in a remote settlement full of monsters and secrets.

In this eerie, blood-splashed Western, Lish McBride invokes a frontier that is harsh, cruel, and practicalA damned enjoyable novel. Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Dark Crowns

Faolan Kellys grandfather is dead. Shes alone in the world and suddenly homeless, all because the local powers that be dont think a young man of sixteen is mature enough to take over his grandfathers homesteadand thats with them thinking Faolan is a young man. If she revealed that her grandfather had been disguising her for years, they would marry her off at the first opportunity.

The mayor finds a solution that serves everyone but Faolan: He hires a gunslinger to ship her off to the Settlement, a remote fort where social outcasts live under the leadership of His Benevolence Gideon Dillard. Its a place rife with mystery, kept afloat by suspicious wealth. Dillards absolute command over his staff just doesnt seem right. And neither do the strange noises that keep Faolan up at night.

When Faolan finds the body of a Settlement boarder, mangled by something that cant possibly be human, its clear something vicious is stalking the palisades. And as Settlement boarders continue to drop like flies, Faolan knows she must escape to evade the creatures wrath.

Author: Lish McBride
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: G.P. Putnams Sons Books for Young Readers
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.25lbs
ISBN: 9781984815620
Language: English