The rain never stops. The world is drowning. Survival is everything. This is the first book in a new gripping dystopian adventure series for young adult readers by New York Times bestselling author Matt Eicheldinger. "If we stay here, if we keep wandering without a real plan, we won't last. Maybe The Hill is dangerous. But maybe it's not. Maybe it's the only plan we have." Seventeen-year-old Aurora knows how to survive. Life in the foster system has taught her how to stay quiet, stay smart, and stay ready. But nothing could prepare her for
this: a never-ending storm that swallows cities, drowns forests, and turns the world into a flooded wasteland.
Trapped in a collapsing house with her strict prepper foster parents, Aurora is forced to live by their rules just to stay alive. Until the day they disappear without a trace.
Alone.
Abandoned. And
running out of time.
All Aurora has is a waterlogged scrap of paper and a name: "The Hill." With looters closing in and the floodwaters rising higher each day, she's left with
one impossible choice--stay and wait for the storm to take her, or risk everything on a journey through the drowned remains of the world, to a find a place that may or not exist.
It's forward or nothing.
With echoes of
Life As We Knew It,
The Last of Us, and
Hatchet, Aurora's story is a
gripping, emotionally resonant survival story about
resilience, found family, and
one girl's fight to reclaim her future in a drowning world.