Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, bandit and wanted thief, roaming through the Seven Kingdoms of a post-cataclysmic Britain. When she finds herself reluctantly paired up with the hapless Albert, as serenely  happy-go-lucky as he is clumsy and awkward, the two must journey together across the Wilds and the Surviving Towns. But Albert’s sinister past catches up with him, and he proves to be much more than he first appears. This enthralling novel from award-winning author Jonathan Stroud sings with adventure, spine-chilling horror, and an imagination as broad as the worlds within its pages.