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The sky did not rain fire. It rained monsters.

Three years ago the Veilfall ended the world. The living ships came without warning, and what they dropped from the dark did not stop until the cities were silent. Now sixteen-year-old Wren Cassidy survives in the Warren, a resistance hidden in stone, scavenging to keep her little brother alive under one unbreakable rule: stay dark, stay hidden, never engage.

But Wren can’t stop watching the things that hunt the forest — sketching them, learning them, certain that anything this deadly must also be understood. When one of the creatures begins to learn the survivors’ patterns, hunting its way toward the only home she has left, Wren does the forbidden thing. She captures one. She studies it. And she discovers that the monsters can be killed — if you’re willing to look the horror in the face long enough to find its flaw.

The resistance has always known how to hide. Wren is about to teach them how to fight.