The Hollow is a peaceful village, a farming backwater among the free cities of the Western Lands, but when a local girl named Penelope Bell is kidnapped from her home in the middle of the night, that peace is shattered.
Unwilling to accept the loss of Penelope, a young striker named Gabriel Rain joins Penelope's brother and sister on a quest to bring her home. Their journey takes them across the dangerous Grasslands and as far as the legendary Ragged Mountains themselves, where they find themselves caught between two sides of a bloody war. Along the way, they face dark wizards, ancient gods, and discover that the Ragged Mountains always take as much as they yield.
The third novel by Bram Stoker nominated David Oppegaard (author of The Suicide Collectors (St. Martin's Press) and Wormwood, Nevada (St. Martin's Press) The Ragged Mountains is a dark YA fantasy in the tradition of The Hunger Games, The Warded Man, the Earthsea Trilogy, and The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.
"Eloquent prose and haunting characters lift Oppegaard's astonishing debut..." - Publishers Weekly, starred review
"As always with the best science fiction, The Suicide Collectors takes a real-world phenomenon to its logical conclusion." - Washington Post
Genre: Fantasy
Unwilling to accept the loss of Penelope, a young striker named Gabriel Rain joins Penelope's brother and sister on a quest to bring her home. Their journey takes them across the dangerous Grasslands and as far as the legendary Ragged Mountains themselves, where they find themselves caught between two sides of a bloody war. Along the way, they face dark wizards, ancient gods, and discover that the Ragged Mountains always take as much as they yield.
The third novel by Bram Stoker nominated David Oppegaard (author of The Suicide Collectors (St. Martin's Press) and Wormwood, Nevada (St. Martin's Press) The Ragged Mountains is a dark YA fantasy in the tradition of The Hunger Games, The Warded Man, the Earthsea Trilogy, and The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.
"Eloquent prose and haunting characters lift Oppegaard's astonishing debut..." - Publishers Weekly, starred review
"As always with the best science fiction, The Suicide Collectors takes a real-world phenomenon to its logical conclusion." - Washington Post
Genre: Fantasy
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