The Wolf and the Rain by Tanya Lee

Samarra was a Protector, climbing the ranks in drought-stricken Seira, when a murder sent her fleeing 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.

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.

IndieReader Discovery Award Winner
Wishing Shelf Book Awards bronze medalist
Readers’ Favorite Book Awards silver medalist
Shortlisted for the WIBA

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

Join Samarra, ‘arguably one of the most complicated, compelling, and deeply likeable protagonists in YA lit,’ as she and her friends head south into the Waste, the eerie reburn south of the Barrow.

In the thrilling sequel to The Wolf and the Rain, the award-winning story of a missing girl in an anarchic city, The Thief and the Waste ‘outpaces its predecessor in an emotionally stirring story that packs a punch and is impossible to put down’ (IndieReader 5-star review).

Finalist in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards