Blends Mad Max, The City in the Sky, and The City in the Desert for a distinctive sci-fi landscape
Features a complex female lead, Scales, who is both a mechanic and a warrior
Involves a conspiracy-driven plot unraveling the fragile peace of two walled cities
Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
Engaging prose that alternates between poetic and brutal storytelling
Summarized by Shop
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable deaths in a searing sci-fi thriller from the Compton Crook Award–winning author of The Space Between Worlds.
Scales is the best at what she does. She is an enforcer who keeps the peace in Ashtown; a rough, climate-ravaged desert t
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