Action! Humor! Fantasy! "Kicking off a new series with a bang (several bangs, in fact), Stroud sends two young fugitives with murky pasts fleeing murderous pursuers across a fractured future Britain." โKirkus Reviews, starred
Scarlett McCain is a shoot-first ask-questions-later kind of outlaw. She scrapes by on bank heists, her witsโand never looking back.
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Sheโs on the run from her latest crime when she comes across Albert Browne. He is the sole survivor of a horrific accident, and against her better judgement, Scarlett agrees to guide him to safety.
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This is a mistake. Soon there are men with dogs and guns and explosives hot on their heels. Scarlettโs used to being chased by the law, but this is extreme. It was only a little bank sheโd robbed . . .
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As they flee together across the wilds, fighting off monstrous beasts, and dodging their pursuers, Scarlett comes to realize that Albert Browne is hiding a terrible secret. And that he may be the most dangerous threat of all.
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In this fast-paced, quick-witted whirlwind of a story, Jonathan Stroud introduces two unlikely alliesโthe outlaws Scarlett and Browneโwho are about to become the most notorious renegades in all thatโs left of Britain.