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.
