This engrossing, action-packed, deftly-drawn novel expands on the world of Cherie Dimalines award-winning The Marrow Thieves, and it will haunt readers long after theyve turned the final page. When their paths finally collide, French must decide how far he is willing to go-and how many loved ones is he willing to betray-in order to survive. Meanwhile, out in the world, his found family searches for him and dodges new dangers-school Recruiters, a blood cult, even the land itself. But then French wakes up in a pitch-black room, locked in and alone for the first time in years, and he knows immediately where he is-and what it will take to escape. Seventeen-year-old French lost his family to these schools and has spent the years since heading north with his new found family: a group of other dreamers, who, like him, are trying to build and thrive as a community. Soon, residential schools pop up-or are re-opened-across the land to bring in the dreamers and harvest their dreams.

The government soon finds that the Indigenous people of North America have retained their dreams, an ability rumored to be housed in the very marrow of their bones.

Without dreams, people are haunted, sick, mad, unable to rebuild. Book Synopsis From the acclaimed author of The Marrow Thieves comes a thrilling new story about hope and survival that New York Times bestselling author Angeline Boulley called a revelatory must-read A 2022 American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Young Adult Honor Book Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions of people, much of the world stopped dreaming. About the Book French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him-and French has to decide just how much, and whom, he is willing to sacrifice to survive and be reunited with Rose and the others.

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