The Wolf and the Rain by Tanya Lee

“A slow-burn thrill ride through a unique post-apocalyptic world” – IndieReader Discovery Awards (best YA fiction)

Samarra is a Protector, climbing the ranks in drought-stricken Seira, when a murder sends 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.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

In the thrilling sequel to The Wolf and the Rain, the award-winning story of a missing girl in an anarchic city, Samarra and her friends travel deep into the Waste, the eerie reburn south of the Barrow. A Wishing Shelf Book Awards finalist, The Thief and the Waste “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).