Tips his head up an studies the sky fer a long while. Then he g athers up the st ones or tw igs or whatev er he’s set out on the ground this time, an puts ’em away fer tomorrow. He jest s tares at the sky, the clear cr uel sky. But, well before they reach us, they break apart, thin out an disappear. Our hearts beat faster an our hopes rise as they creep our way. An every day, big bellied rainclouds gather on the horizon. Every day Pa tries another one of his charms or spells. Pretty soon, there won ’t be no point in callin it by its name. You gotta walk some ways out now to ﬁll a bucket. Even the spring that feeds the lake’s startin to run dry. W e ain’t had a drop of rai n fer near si x months now. The kinda white heat day when you can hear th’earth crack. Saba’s rage is so wild, that she manages to drive the men away, but not before they have captured Lugh and killed their father.Īnd here begins Saba’s epic quest to rescue Lugh, during which she is tested by trials she could not have imagined, and one that takes the reader on breathtaking ride full or romance, physical adventure and unforgettably vivid characters, making this a truly sensational YA debut novel. So Saba’s small world is brutally torn apart, when a group of armed riders arrives five day’s after the twin’s eighteenth birthday snatch Lugh away. To Saba, Lugh is her light and she is his shadow, he is the day, she is the nighttime, he is beautiful, she is ugly, he is good, she is bad. Golden-haired and blue-eyed, loving and good, he seems the complete opposite to dark-haired Saba, who is full of anger and driven by a ruthless survival instinct. Allis died giving birth to Emmi, and Saba has never forgiven her sister for their mother’s death.īut while she despises Emmi, Saba adores her twin brother Lugh. But Saba’s father refuses to leave the place where he buried his beloved wife, Allis, nine years ago. The family resides in a secluded shed, their nearest neighbour living many miles away and the lake, their only source of water and main provider of food, gradually dying from the lack of rain. In a wild and lawless future, where life is cheap and survival is hard, eighteen-year-old Saba lives with her father, her twin brother Lugh, her young sister Emmi and her pet crow Nero. This fast-paced YA debut novel has it all: smart, savvy characters making their way through an eerily dystopian society, with all the requisite action, adventure and romance characteristic of the genre vividly and at times, chillingly, portrayed.

Blood red road by moira young