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. Kirkus Reviews starred**Soon to be a motion picture starring Phoebe Dynevor of
Bridgerton!** Scarlett McCain is a shoot-first ask-questions-later kind of outlaw. She scrapes
by on bank heists her wits and never looking back. She s 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. This is a mistake. Soon there are men
with dogs and guns and explosives hot on their heels. Scarlett s used to being chased by the
law but this is extreme. It was only a little bank she d robbed . . . 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. In this fast-paced quick-witted whirlwind of a story Jonathan Stroud
introduces two unlikely allies the outlaws Scarlett and Browne who are about to become the most
notorious renegades in all that s left of Britain.
