The mountain does not ask. It only takes.
Deep beneath the ruins of the old world, a fortress of survivors has found a way to endure the poisoned earth -- by draining the blood of the very people they call savages. When the Vault Men begin taking Nova's people one by one, the fragile peace between the sky-born exiles and the earth's native clans shatters completely.
To save what's left of her people, Lyra must do the one thing she swore she never would: forge an alliance with the very warriors who once hunted her kind through the woods. Together, exile and Rootborn must storm a mountain fortress built to withstand exactly this kind of war -- before the harvest claims everyone she loves.
Some walls are built to keep monsters out. This one was built to keep them in, and it is far too late to matter.
Book Two of The Fallen Arc -- a post-apocalyptic war and survival sagaAn uneasy-alliance siege story for readers of dystopian tribal-war fictionContinues the series following Nova, Lyra, and the coalition they're building from nothingThe mountain has been feeding for a hundred years. It has never faced an army like this one.