A century after a virus has decimated its population, the Continent’s survivors are divided into two classes: the Branded, who are vulnerable to disease, and the Pure, who are bigger, stronger and immune. Orphan, Nara, and her twin sister, Osha, are sequestered in the citadel of Isfalk, where their pure skin entitles them to a life of privilege as precious immune breeding stock.
But when the girls are kidnapped by Wasteland traders, their narrow views of the class system begin to erode … the Branded are on the rise. Nara accepts the help of Nix, a southern Brand with a shady past who appears to know much more than he should about the sisters’ parentage, as well as Nara’s strange new psychic powers which are growing the further she gets from Isfalk.
An epic, high-concept speculative novel, served up with all the romance, conflict and quick-fire narrative pace that fans of Jay Kristoff and Sarah J Maas are sure to love.
