Award-winning Rachel Hartman’s newest YA is definitely a tour de force and an exquisite fantasy for the #metoo movement.

‘Tess of the street is astonishing and perfect. It is the most compassionate reserve I’ve browse since George Eliot’s Middlemarch.’ –NPR

In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons could be whomever they choose. Tess is certainly none of these things. Tess is usually . different. She speaks out of turn, has wild tips, and can’t appear to maintain out about Tess of the Road of trouble. After that Tess goes too much. What she’s carried out is so disgraceful, she can’t even allow herself to think about it. Unfortunately, the past cannot be ignored. So Tess’s family decide the only way for her can be a nunnery.

But on your day she is to become listed on the nuns, Tess chooses a different route for herself. She cuts her locks, pulls on her boots, and sets out on a trip. She’s not working away, she’s operating towards something. What that something is, she doesn’t know. Tess just understands that the open road is a map to somewhere else–a existence where she might belong.

Time for the spellbinding world of the Southlands she produced in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling novel Seraphina, Rachel Hartman explores self-reliance and redemption with this wholly original dream.

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Four starred testimonials!

‘The world building is gorgeous, the creatures are vivid and Hartman is a masterful storyteller. Pick up this novel, and savor every page.’ –Paste Magazine