2021 Audie Award Winner for Best Middle Grade Audiobook
In a mythic Scotland, two unlikely heroes must make a dangerous
journey to save their people.
Agatha is a Hawk, brave and fierce, who protects her people by
patrolling the high walls of their island home. She is proud of her job,
though some in her clan whisper that it is meant to keep her out of the
way because of the condition she was born with. Jaime, thoughtful and
anxious, is an Angler, but he hates the sea. Worse, he's been chosen for
a duty that the clan hasn't required for generations: to marry. The
elders won't say why they have promised him to a girl in a neighboring
clan, but there are rumors of approaching danger. When disaster strikes
and the clan is kidnapped, it is up to Agatha and Jaime to travel across
the haunted mainland of Scotia to Norveg, with help along the way from a
clan of nomadic Highland bull riders and the many animals who are drawn
to Agatha's extraordinary gift of communication. Thrilling and dark yet
rich with humor and compassion, this is the first book in the Shadow
Skye trilogy, written by a wonderful new voice in fantasy and
introducing a welcome new kind of hero.