A Philip K. Dick Award nominee.

In a devastated globe, one girl undertakes a eager journey to save the future.

Etta originates from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the fantastic plague that wiped away the globe that was. In the globe that is, ladies are scarce and childbearing can be dangerous…yet desperately necessary for humankind’s future. Moms and midwives are sacred, but Etta has a different phoning. As a scavenger. Loyal towards the town but living on her own conditions, Etta roams the desolate about The Book of Etta place beyond: salvaging useful relics of the ruined past and braving the threat of brutal slave investors, who are seeking women and girls to market and subjugate.

When slavers seize those she loves, Etta vows to release and avenge them. But her mission will lead her to the stronghold of the Lion—a tyrant who dominates the innocent with terror and assault. There, without allies and few weapons besides her wits and will, she will risk both body and nature not only to save lots of lives but also to liberate a new world’s destiny.

The Reserve of Etta is the sequel towards the Philip K. Dick Prize–winning book The Book of the Unnamed Midwife.