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Ideal for readers who enjoy supernatural horror, folklore, and dark short fiction.
Tribal Screams
Horror · Indigenous Fiction · Supernatural Horror
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Called “A wonderful collection of stories that will set all of us to thinking” by George A. Romero, Tribal Screams is a revised and expanded collection of horror and fantasy stories and poems from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Owl Goingback. Its tales feature monsters, ancient legends, restless spirits, and unsettling encounters in the modern world. Ideal for readers who enjoy supernatural horror, folklore, and dark short fiction.
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"A wonderful collection of stories that will set all of us to thinking." —George A. Romero, legendary horror director of Night of the Living Dead
In this revised and expanded edition, Tribal Screams offers works of horror and fantasy that stem from the dark imagination of Owl Goingback, the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of the critically-acclaimed supernatural thrillers Crota, Breed, and Coyote Rage. In these compact tales and poems, he delivers accounts of monsters, mayhem, and madness: some set in lands once inhabited by ancient peoples and haunted by their myths and legends, others firmly set in a modern world where people have strayed too far from themselves.
In "Grass Dancer," a Nebula Award nominee for best short story, a Kiowa soldier's courage in the Vietnam War inspires his disabled brother to face his greatest fears. A drug-addicted predator, who thinks he has nothing left to lose, seals his own fate in "Ashes." Humor infuses the whimsical "Animal Sounds," the tale of a Cherokee medicine man who barters with cannibal skeletons to save his tribe from starvation. And in the chilling ghost story "Last Man in Line," a modern fraternity initiation set at the site of a Civil War POW camp leads its participant to a haunting revelation.
The stories and poems in this volume, some never before collected, will transport readers to worlds and circumstances beyond the paper-thin veil of reality, where spirits prowl and revel.
"Like the best horror stories, they offer a mix of catalysts, problems and outcomes, and they are all distinct and captivating." —Dark Dispatch
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A good pick for fans of irreverent comic fantasy that mixes mythology, romance, and absurd situations.
Coyote Blue
Fantasy · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Indigenous Fiction
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Called “Downright laugh-out-loud, can't-put-the-book-down funny.” by The Philadelphia Inquirer, this novel follows insurance salesman Samuel Hunter, whose carefully invented life is disrupted by love and the arrival of the trickster god Coyote. A good pick for fans of irreverent comic fantasy that mixes mythology, romance, and absurd situations.
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From the master of subversive humor Christopher Moore comes a quirky, irreverent novel of love, myth, metaphysics, outlaw biking, angst, and outrageous redemption.
As a boy, he was Samson Hunts Alone—until a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. Today he is Samuel Hunter, a successful Santa Barbara insurance salesman with a Mercedes, a condo, and a hollow, invented life. Then one day, destiny offers him the dangerous gift of love—in the exquisite form of Calliope Kincaid—and a curse in the unheralded appearance of an ancient god by the name of Coyote. Coyote, the trickster, has arrived to reawaken the mystical storyteller within Sam...and to seriously screw up his existence in the process.
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This will appeal to readers who want YA mystery built around multiple suspects, community ties, secrets, and shifting trust.
Looking for Smoke
Mystery · Teen + Young Adult · Indigenous Fiction
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Four Blackfeet teens become persons of interest after a girl they were last seen with is murdered, forcing them to work together to clear their names despite their mistrust and complicated histories with the victim, with a 3.9-star average from more than 8,100 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want YA mystery built around multiple suspects, community ties, secrets, and shifting trust.
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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
In her powerful debut novel, Looking for Smoke, author K. A. Cobell (Blackfeet) weaves loss, betrayal, and complex characters into a thriller that will illuminate, surprise, and engage readers until the final word. A must-pick for readers who enjoy books by Angeline Boulley and Karen McManus!
When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren’s missing sister, Mara thinks she’ll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation.
Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is found murdered.
Because the four members of the Giveaway group were the last to see Samantha alive, each becomes a person of interest in the investigation. And all of them—Mara, Loren, Brody, and Eli—have a complicated history with Samantha.
Despite deep mistrust, the four must now take matters into their own hands and clear their names. Even though one of them may be the murderer.
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A good pick for readers who like action-packed crime thrillers with coastal danger, political corruption, ancient secrets, and high-stakes rescue missions.
Tomlinson’s Wake
Mystery · Indigenous Fiction
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Tomlinson's Wake sends Doc Ford to Honduras after Tomlinson’s shipwreck off the Mosquito Coast draws them into the path of a hidden twelve-year-old Mayan descendant, corrupt politicians, and a catastrophic earthquake, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 1,800 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for readers who like action-packed crime thrillers with coastal danger, political corruption, ancient secrets, and high-stakes rescue missions.
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Doc Ford returns for a perilous journey into Mesoamerica after a world-shattering earthquake threatens his family's safety—and all of their lives
In the wake of a killer hurricane, Doc Ford heads to Honduras, where his best friend, Tomlinson, crashed his beloved sailboat into a reef off the Mosquito Coast. Tomlinson swears he died in the shipwreck and was brought back to life by a runaway orphan—the direct descendant of the last king of the ancient Mayan people.
Corrupt politicians want the child out of the picture before he catalyzes a revolution among the Indigenous population. But the boy, a charismatic twelve-year-old, has gone underground with the help of Tomlinson and a network of street urchins. They're all on the run and in the crosshairs when Ford arrives and picks up his friend’s trail.
The Marina family has already suffered the death of one key member, and Ford is determined not to burden his homeless friends with yet another funeral wake. What no one is prepared for, however, is a cataclysmic earthquake that hits the area with the impact of a meteor that nearly destroyed all life on earth more than sixty million years ago.
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My Heart Is a Chainsaw follows a horror-obsessed outcast who reads her town like a slasher movie long before the bodies start to appear.
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Horror · Indigenous Fiction
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My Heart Is a Chainsaw follows a horror-obsessed outcast who reads her town like a slasher movie long before the bodies start to appear. Jade Daniels uses masked killers and final girls to make sense of trauma, isolation, and a place built on buried violence. This literary horror novel blends bloody genre homage with grief, rage, Indigenous displacement, and the desperate need to belong.
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Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in the rollicking, bloody first novel of The Indian Lake trilogy by the master of modern horror Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.
“Some girls just don’t know how to die…”
Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called “a literary master” by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and “one of our most talented living writers” by Tommy Orange.
Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw “a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.” On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life.
Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold.
Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges…a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.
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Justice becomes personal when the system meant to protect you fails your own family.
Winter Counts
Thriller · Mystery · Indigenous Fiction
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Justice becomes personal when the system meant to protect you fails your own family. In Winter Counts, Virgil Wounded Horse serves as an enforcer on the Rosebud Reservation, delivering punishment where courts fall short. When heroin reaches his nephew, he follows the trail beyond the reservation, confronting cartels, corruption, and his own fractured sense of identity in a crime novel that binds vigilante action to cultural reckoning.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR FIRST NOVEL
“Winter Counts is a marvel. It’s a thriller with a beating heart and jagged teeth.” —Tommy Orange, author of There There
A Best Book of 2020: NPR * Publishers Weekly * Library Journal * CrimeReads * Goodreads * Sun Sentinel * SheReads * MysteryPeople
A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx.
Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that’s hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil’s nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop.
They follow a lead to Denver and find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances. And back on the reservation, a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power. As Virgil starts to link the pieces together, he must face his own demons and reclaim his Native identity. He realizes that being a Native American in the twenty-first century comes at an incredible cost.
Winter Counts is a tour-de-force of crime fiction, a bracingly honest look at a long-ignored part of American life, and a twisting, turning story that’s as deeply rendered as it is thrilling.
Winner, Spur Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and Best First Novel * Winner, Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery Novel * Shortlisted, Best First Novel, Bouchercon Anthony Awards * Shortlisted, Best First Novel, International Thriller Writers * Shortlisted, Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing, International Association of Crime Writers * Longlisted, VCU Cabell First Novel Award * Shortlisted, Barry Award for Best First Novel * Shortlisted, Reading the West Award * Shortlisted, Colorado Book Award (Thriller)
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A young Ojibway boy survives devastating loss and the brutality of residential school by finding refuge on the ice.
Indian Horse
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Contemporary Fiction · Indigenous Fiction
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A young Ojibway boy survives devastating loss and the brutality of residential school by finding refuge on the ice. Hockey becomes Saul Indian Horse’s escape, his identity, and the source of new wounds in a world shaped by racism and silence. Readers call this coming of age novel heartbreaking and essential, with 4.6 stars on Amazon and over 34,000 ratings on Goodreads.
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"This flawless novel is an epic tragedy graced with tendrils of hope . . . a powerful fictional illumination of a Native North American life." —Minneapolis Star Tribune
Named a "Best Novel of the Decade" by Literary Hub
The Basis for the Award-Winning Movie
Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the lakes and the cedars, they attempt to reconnect with half-forgotten traditions and hide from the authorities who have been kidnapping Ojibway youth. But when winter approaches, Saul loses everything: his brother, his parents, his beloved grandmother—and then his home itself.
Alone in the world and placed in a horrific boarding school, Saul is surrounded by violence and cruelty. At the urging of a priest, he finds a tentative salvation in hockey. Rising at dawn to practice alone, Saul proves determined and undeniably gifted. His intuition and vision are unmatched. His speed is remarkable. Together they open doors for him: away from the school, into an all-Ojibway amateur circuit, and finally within grasp of a professional career. Yet as Saul's victories mount, so do the indignities and the taunts, the racism and the hatred—the harshness of a world that will never welcome him, tied inexorably to the sport he loves.
Spare and compact yet undeniably rich, Indian Horse is at once a heartbreaking account of a dark chapter in our history and a moving coming-of-age story.
"Shocking and alien, valuable and true . . . A master of empathy." —Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
"A wonderful coming-of-age novel." —Outside Magazine
"Wagamese has sneakily written one of the great works of sport literature." —Literary Hub
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In Mongrels, a boy grows up on the margins, traveling the back roads of the South with an aunt and uncle who live by secrets and survival.
Mongrels
Horror · Literary Fiction · Indigenous Fiction · Speculative Fiction
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In Mongrels, a boy grows up on the margins, traveling the back roads of the South with an aunt and uncle who live by secrets and survival. As he waits to learn what he truly is, loyalty and belonging collide with violence and change. Stephen Graham Jones delivers an award finalist coming of age horror novel praised by Tor.com and Book Riot.
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FINALIST FOR THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE THIS IS HORROR AWARD * HONORABLE MENTION, LOCUS AWARDS * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2016 BY TOR.COM AND BOOK RIOT
A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy, whose family lives on the fringe of society and struggles to survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them.
He was born an outsider, like the rest of his family. Poor yet resilient, he lives in the shadows with his aunt Libby and uncle Darren, folk who stubbornly make their way in a society that does not understand or want them. They are mongrels, mixed blood, neither this nor that. The boy at the center of Mongrels must decide if he belongs on the road with his aunt and uncle, or if he fits with the people on the other side of the tracks.
For ten years, he and his family have lived a life of late-night exits and narrow escapes--always on the move across the South to stay one step ahead of the law. But the time is drawing near when Darren and Libby will finally know if their nephew is like them or not. And the close calls they've been running from for so long are catching up fast now. Everything is about to change.
A compelling and fascinating journey, Mongrels alternates between past and present to create an unforgettable portrait of a boy trying to understand his family and his place in a complex and unforgiving world. A smart and innovative story-- funny, bloody, raw, and real--told in a rhythmic voice full of heart, Mongrels is a deeply moving, sometimes grisly, novel that illuminates the challenges and tender joys of a life beyond the ordinary in a bold and imaginative new way.
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A simple nighttime whistle can become an invitation, a warning, or the first step toward something that follows.
Never Whistle at Night
Horror · Indigenous Fiction · Occult Horror · Supernatural Horror
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A simple nighttime whistle can become an invitation, a warning, or the first step toward something that follows. Never Whistle at Night gathers Indigenous dark fiction rooted in ghosts, curses, monsters, family legacies, and revenge, offering a horror anthology shaped by cultural memory, survival, and the dangerous stories people pass down for a reason.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST EDITED ANTHOLOGY • BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY • LOCUS AWARD FINALIST
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to be un-settled?”
“Never failed to surprise, delight, and shock.” —Nick Cutter, author of The Troop and Little Heaven
Featuring stories by:
Norris Black • Amber Blaeser-Wardzala • Phoenix Boudreau • Cherie Dimaline • Carson Faust • Kelli Jo Ford • Kate Hart • Shane Hawk • Brandon Hobson • Darcie Little Badger • Conley Lyons • Nick Medina • Tiffany Morris • Tommy Orange • Mona Susan Power • Marcie R. Rendon • Waubgeshig Rice • Rebecca Roanhorse • Andrea L. Rogers • Morgan Talty • D.H. Trujillo • Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. • Richard Van Camp • David Heska Wanbli Weiden • Royce K. Young Wolf • Mathilda Zeller
Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai’po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl. But what all these legends hold in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits to appear—and even follow you home.
These wholly original and shiver-inducing tales introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge. Introduced and contextualized by bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones, these stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples’ survival and imagination, and a glorious reveling in all the things an ill-advised whistle might summon.
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In a magical version of contemporary America, a teen who can summon animal spirits investigates her cousin’s death after his ghost reveals it was murder.
Elatsoe
People of Color · Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult · Indigenous Fiction · Magical Realism
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In a magical version of contemporary America, a teen who can summon animal spirits investigates her cousin’s death after his ghost reveals it was murder. Drawing on family, history, and ancestral knowledge, she confronts a town built on secrets. This award-winning YA fantasy holds 4.4 stars on Amazon and widespread critical acclaim.
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A Texas teen comes face-to-face with a cousin's ghost and vows to unmask the murderer.
Elatsoe—Ellie for short—lives in an alternate contemporary America shaped by the ancestral magics and knowledge of its Indigenous and immigrant groups. She can raise the spirits of dead animals—most importantly, her ghost dog Kirby. When her beloved cousin dies, all signs point to a car crash, but his ghost tells her otherwise: He was murdered.
Who killed him and how did he die? With the help of her family, her best friend Jay, and the memory great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother, Elatsoe, must track down the killer and unravel the mystery of this creepy town and its dark past. But will the nefarious townsfolk and a mysterious Doctor stop her before she gets started?
A breathtaking debut novel featuring an asexual, Apache teen protagonist, Elatsoe combines mystery, horror, noir, ancestral knowledge, haunting illustrations, fantasy elements, and is one of the most-talked about debuts of the year.
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A must-read for fans of moving, character-driven historical fiction.
Between Earth and Sky
Historical Fiction · Coming of Age · Indigenous Fiction
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Amanda Skenandore’s award-winning debut Between Earth and Sky is a poignant exploration of friendship, betrayal, and cultural loss. Winner of the American Library Association’s Reading List Award and rated 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this powerful historical novel is as heartbreaking as it is unforgettable. A must-read for fans of moving, character-driven historical fiction.
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In 1906 Philadelphia, Alma Mitchell’s carefully ordered life unravels with one shocking headline: her childhood friend, Harry Muskrat, is accused of murder. Once the brightest student at her father’s “savage-taming” boarding school, Harry—Asku—was stripped of his culture, his name, and his future. Now he faces death not just as a defendant, but as a man broken by the weight of assimilation.
Alma cannot reconcile the courageous boy she knew with the embittered man before her. Determined to save him, she convinces her lawyer husband to take the case. But defending Harry means exposing Alma’s long-buried secrets, the betrayals she has hidden even from her own heart.
As past and present collide, Alma must decide: will the truth destroy her, or finally set her free?
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A rare bond becomes a threat when a young girl and her dragon are forced into a system built to erase everything they are.
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult · Historical Fantasy · Indigenous Fiction
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A rare bond becomes a threat when a young girl and her dragon are forced into a system built to erase everything they are. In To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, Anequs must survive a colonial dragon school that treats her knowledge, culture, and future as problems to be corrected. This fantasy blends coming-of-age tension, dragon lore, and resistance into a story that feels both intimate and defiant.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE ASTOUNDING, NEBULA, AND LODESTAR AWARDS • FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AND BRITISH FANTASY NEWCOMER AWARDS • “My favorite book of the year . . . a coming-of-age story that is cozy and hair-raising in equal measure.”—Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post
“I tore through it, caught up in an enthusiasm for dragons that I hadn’t experienced since I was a teenager obsessed with Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea and Anne McCaffrey’s Pern.”—NPR
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, PopSugar, Chicago Public Library, Polygon, She Reads, Autostraddle
The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations—until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon’s egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons lived among them and danced away the storms of autumn, enabling the people to thrive. To them, Anequs is revered as Nampeshiweisit—a person in a unique relationship with a dragon.
Unfortunately for Anequs, the Anglish conquerors of her land have different opinions. They have a very specific idea of how a dragon should be raised, and who should be doing the raising—and Anequs does not meet any of their requirements. Only with great reluctance do they allow Anequs to enroll in a proper Anglish dragon school on the mainland. If she cannot succeed there, her dragon will be killed.
For a girl with no formal schooling, a non-Anglish upbringing, and a very different understanding of the history of her land, challenges abound—both socially and academically. But Anequs is smart, determined, and resolved to learn what she needs to help her dragon, even if it means teaching herself. The one thing she refuses to do, however, is become the meek Anglish miss that everyone expects.
Anequs and her dragon may be coming of age, but they’re also coming to power, and that brings an important realization: the world needs changing—and they might just be the ones to do it.
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