Fable For the End of the World: The dark Sunday Times bestseller and sapphic dystopia from the author of A Study in Drowning - Couverture rigide

Reid, Ava

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ISBN 10 : 1529948304 ISBN 13 : 9781529948301

Editeur : Del Rey, 2025

Synopsis

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LADY MACBETH AND A STUDY IN DROWNING

'There's one thing about Ava Reid; she doesn't miss.' Sasha Peyton Smith
'You'll start saving space on your shelf for Ava Reid.' Kendare Blake

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The Last of Us meets The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes in this stand-alone dystopian romance about survival, sacrifice, and love that risks everything.

By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society.

Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa, their cruel and indolent mother has accrued an enormous debt―enough to qualify one of her children for Caerus’s livestreamed assassination spectacle: the Lamb’s Gauntlet.

Melinoë is a Caerus assassin, trained to track and kill the sacrificial Lambs. The product of neural reconditioning and physiological alteration, she is a living weapon, known for her cold brutality and deadly beauty. She has never failed to assassinate one of her marks.

When Inesa learns that her mother has offered her as a sacrifice, at first she despairs―the Gauntlet is always a bloodbath for the impoverished debtors. But she’s had years of practice surviving in the apocalyptic wastes, and with the help of her hunter brother, she might stand a chance of staying alive.

For Melinoë, this is a game she can’t afford to lose. Despite her reputation for mercilessness, she is haunted by painful flashbacks. After her last Gauntlet, where she broke down on livestream, she desperately needs redemption.

As Mel pursues Inesa across the wasteland, both girls begin to question everything: Inesa wonders if there’s more to life than survival, while Mel wonders if she’s capable of more than killing.

And both wonder if, against all odds, they might be falling in love.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ava Reid is the Sunday Times and #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning, Lady Macbeth, Innamorata and more. Her books have been published in over fourteen territories. She lives in the New York area.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Del Rey
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1529948304
• ISBN 13: 9781529948301
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Del Rey; https://www.penguin.co.uk/company/publishers/cornerstone/del-rey-uk; ; Attn: Andrea T Sheridan 1745 BROADWAY, 14-1; NEW YORK; NY; 10019; Etats-Unis
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