The rain never stops. The world is drowning. Survival is everything. This is the first book in a new gripping dystopian adventure trilogy for young adult readers by New York Times bestselling author Matt Eicheldinger.
“If we stay here, if we keep wandering without a real plan, we won’t last. Maybe The Hill is dangerous. But maybe it’s not. Maybe it’s the only plan we have.”
Seventeen-year-old Aurora knows how to survive. Life in the foster system has taught her how to stay quiet, stay smart, and stay ready. But nothing could prepare her for this: a never-ending storm that swallows cities, drowns forests, and turns the world into a flooded wasteland.
Trapped in a collapsing house with her strict prepper foster parents, Aurora is forced to live by their rules just to stay alive. Until the day they disappear without a trace.
Alone. Abandoned. And running out of time.
All Aurora has is a waterlogged scrap of paper and a name: “The Hill.” With looters closing in and the floodwaters rising higher each day, she’s left with one impossible choice—stay and wait for the storm to take her, or risk everything on a journey through the drowned remains of the world, to a find a place that may or not exist.
It’s forward or nothing.
The rain took everything. The sun will test what’s left. From New York Times bestselling author Matt Eicheldinger comes the pulse-pounding sequel to When the Rain Came, a gripping survival story about truth, hunger, and the desperate will to survive.
The rain is gone. The sun has come. And the world is burning.
Aurora and Kota journey toward Redfern—a refugee shelter that promises safety but demands obedience. Inside, nothing is simple. Trust is currency. Secrets are weapons. And The Hill is still out there. . . .
As the heat presses in, Aurora can feel Kota slipping further away from her reach, even though their survival depends on each other. But the secret he’s hiding could destroy more than just the fragile trust between them, it could doom them all.
Survival isn’t guaranteed. One mistake and everything burns.
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