Blurb:
In post-apocalyptic America, Selah Chavez is crouched in
long grass on a shore littered with the rusted metal remnants of a
once-great city. It is the day before her eighteenth Born Remembrance,
and she is hunting, though many people refuse to eat animal flesh,
tainted by radiation during the Time of Sorrows. What Selah's really
after are Landers, mysterious people from a land across the big water
who survive the delirium-inducing passage in small boats that
occasionally crash against the shoreline. She knows she should leave
the capture to the men, but Landers bring a good price from the Company
and are especially prized if they keep the markings they arrive with.
Everything falls to pieces when the Lander Selah catches
is stolen by her brothers--and Selah wakes up the next morning to find
the Lander's distinctive mark has suddenly appeared on her own flesh.
Once the hunter, Selah is now one of the hunted, and she knows only one
person who can help her--Bohdi Locke, the Lander her brothers hope to
sell.
With evocative descriptions of a strange new world that
combines elements of scientific advances, political intrigue, and
wilderness survival, Bonnie S. Calhoun weaves a captivating tale of a
world more like our own than we may want to admit.