Fable For The End Of The World
by Ava Reid
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Pages:
384
Published:
8 Sept 2026
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Imprint
Del Rey
ISBN:
9781804953792
The epic standalone dystopian romance from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning and Lady Macbeth. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and The Last of Us
By encouraging massive accumulations of debt, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society.Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town, barely scraping a living from their taxidermy shop. But their mother has secretly accrued enormous debt - and the only way out is to offer her daughter up to be a sacrifice for Caerus's livestreamed assassination event- the Lamb's Gauntlet.
Melinoe is the assassin chosen for this spectacle. The product of years of neural reconditioning and physiological alteration, she's a living weapon, famous for her cold brutality and deadly beauty. But she's also haunted by her failure in the last gauntlet, when she broke down live on screen.
But as Mel pursues Inesa across the wasteland, each determined to claim victory, they begin to question what they've been taught. Could there be more to life than survival? Could they be capable of more than death?
Could they, against all the odds, be falling in love?
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