Head down, mouth shut—Askari is trying to keep her place among the Baratok after the rarohan attack left her people scarred and grieving. But when a stranger rides into camp with news of monsters carrying healing blood, she sees a chance to protect her community from further loss.
The hunt turns into a nightmare. Marked as prey by a monster that refuses to stop pursuing her, Askari flees into the wilderness with Harcos and Shujaa at her side. Every step takes her farther from the Baratok—and closer to the abandoned city of Dod.
She hopes the city might offer reprieve… but instead, it holds horrors she could never have imagined.
Askari wanted to heal her people. Instead, she may have doomed herself.
This book contains fantasy violence.
This is the second edition.
Ariele Sieling is a Baltimore-based writer who enjoys books, cats, and trees. Her first love, however, is science fiction and she has three series in the genre: post-apocalyptic monsters in Land of Szornyek; soft science fiction series, The Sagittan Chronicles; and scifi fairytale retellings in Rove City. She has also had numerous short stories published in a variety of anthologies and magazines and is the author of children's books series Rutherford the Unicorn Sheep.
She lives in Baltimore with her husband, enormous Great Pyrenees dog, and two cats.
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