Shortlisted, Indie Book Award for Young Adult, 2017
Shortlisted, West Australian Young Readers' Book Award, 2017
Shortlisted, Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation's Aurealis Award, 2016
Shortlisted, Readings Young Adult Book Prize, 2017
Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Award: Griffith University Young Adult Book Award, 2017
Shortlisted, Foreword Indies Awards: Young Adult Fiction, United States, 2017
Longlisted, Best Designed Children's/Young Adult Series, Australian Book Design Awards, 2020
Since a deadly virus and the violence that followed wiped out his parents and most of his community, Finn has lived alone on the rugged coast with only his loyal dog Rowdy for company.
He has stayed alive for two winters—hunting and fishing and trading food, and keeping out of sight of the Wilders, an armed and dangerous gang that controls the north, led by a ruthless man named Ramage.
But Finn's isolation is shattered when a girl runs onto the beach. Rose is a Siley—an asylum seeker—and she has escaped from Ramage, who had enslaved her and her younger sister, Kas. Rose is desperate, sick, and needs Finn's help. Kas is still missing somewhere out in the bush.
And Ramage wants the girls back—at any cost.
