The Grace Year [Hardcover]

The InstantNew York TimesBestseller!Kim Liggett'sThe Grace Yearis a speculative thriller in the vein ofThe Handmaids TaleandThe Power.

Survive the year.

No one speaks of the grace year. Its forbidden.

In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. Thats why theyre banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive.

Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better lifea society that doesnt pit friend against friend or woman against woman, but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that its not just the brutal elements they must fear. Its not even the poachers in the woods, men who are waiting for a chance to grab one of the girls in order to make a fortune on the black market. Their greatest threat may very well be each other.

With sharp prose and gritty realism,The Grace Yearexamines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between.

A visceral, darkly haunting fever dream of a novel and an absolute page-turner.  Libba Bray,New York Timesbestselling author

Kim Liggett is theNew York Timesand International bestselling author ofThe Grace Year, a Target, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million Book Club Pick, along with Amazon Editor's Young Adult Book of the Year for 2019, and winner of the 2020 Nous a Libre Prize for Young Adult Literature. Published in over twenty languages and counting,The Grace Yearcontinues to captivate readers of all ages from around the globe. Also an acclaimed horror writer, she is the authl3)