The Wolf and the Rain
The award-winning story of a missing girl in a lawless city.
Global warming has divided the continent. Samarra has fled from the barren, authoritarian South to the Barrow, a northern city where the only things growing faster than the city’s piles of garbage are extremist cults and violent gangs. Her sole objective is survival: to stay hidden and stay safe.
With jobs in short supply, Samarra counts herself lucky to find work with the Vauns, one of the Barrow’s most powerful and dangerous families. As she learns to navigate the beauty, the horror, and the magic of the lawless city, she finds herself living in the shadow of a missing woman—the mysterious Raina, who worked for the Vauns before her. When the trail, long thought cold, heats up, Samarra must decide whether her newly gained chance at freedom is worth sacrificing for a ghost.
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‘Tanya Lee’s debut novel is a page-turner, with settings so richly detailed that you can practically smell the disinfectant in Sam’s childhood dorm and the garbage lining the Barrow’s muddy lanes. It’s a dystopian epic made for film.’ – 2019 IndieReader Discovery Award Winner (best YA fiction)
Hailed by Kirkus as one of the Great Indie Books Worth Discovering
Shortlisted for the Whistler Independent Book Awards (fiction category)
Wishing Shelf Book Awards bronze medalist (teen category)
Readers’ Favorite Book Awards silver medalist (best young adult sci-fi)
B.R.A.G Medallion Honoree
“Atmospheric . . . realistic . . . slow-burning” – Kirkus Reviews (read the full review HERE)
“Rich, evocative and compelling, with subtle humor and dynamic strong female characters to root for.” – Kristen Conrad, #1 bestselling author of This is Devin Jones
“A superb read that holds much promise for the future of science fiction.” – Readers’ Favorite *5 stars (read the full review HERE)
“Marvelous world-building.” – Judge 14, 27th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards
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The Thief and the Waste (The Wolf and the Rain series, book II)
Girls are being snatched from the Barrow. Who has been buying them and why is unclear, but one thing is certain: they are being taken south of the wall into Seira, the military state that Samarra escaped a year ago. The military state that wants her dead.
After a tumultuous night that leaves one of their own murdered, Samarra and her friends manage to thwart this year’s shipment. With the trafficker’s cart in their possession, they have an opportunity–trick their way into Seira by masquerading as the kidnapped girls and their guards.
It’s a grandiose plan born out of grief and guilt and rage. A doomed mission, they all know, though the enemy they are moving toward is far more powerful than any of them could have imagined.
But before they can take on the puppetmaster, they’ll have to fight their way through the Waste.
For Raina. For Anna. For all the girls that vanished in the night.
Finalist in the 2020 Wishing Shelf Book Awards *Winners to be announced in April 2021!
‘A tense sequel that outpaces its predecessor in an emotionally stirring story that packs a punch and is impossible to put down[…] Samarra is arguably one of the most complicated, compelling, and deeply likeable protagonists in YA lit.’– IndieReader (5 star review)
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