A Consuming Fire

Laura E. Weymouth

• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781665902717
• eBook ISBN: 9781665902724

“Achingly lovely and luminous…left me completely enthralled.” —Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows

Uprooted meets The Grace Year in this dark young adult fantasy of love and vengeance following a girl who vows to kill a god after her sister is unjustly slain by his hand “that will appeal to readers of Leigh Bardugo and Holly Black” (School Library Journal).

Weatherell girls aren’t supposed to die.

Once every eighteen years, the isolated forest village of Weatherell is asked to send one girl to the god of the mountain to give a sacrifice before returning home. Twins Anya and Ilva Astraea are raised with this destiny in mind, and when their time comes, spirited Ilva volunteers to go. Her devoted sister Anya is left at home to pray for Ilva’s safe return. But Anya’s prayers are denied.

With her sister dead, Anya volunteers to make a journey of her own to visit the god of the mountain. But unlike her sister, sacrifice is the furthest thing from Anya’s mind. Anya has no intention of giving anything more to the god, or of letting any other girl do so ever again. Anya Astraea has not set out to placate a god. She’s set out to kill one.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Chapter One: Weatherell
• Chapter Two: Anger in the Bones
• Chapter Three: Out of the Woods and into the World
• Chapter Four: The Hand of a Thief
• Chapter Five: Sanctuaries
• Chapter Six: A Living Prayer
• Chapter Seven: First Victory
• Chapter Eight: Shorn Threads
• Chapter Nine: Wanderers
• Chapter Ten: Low Roads
• Chapter Eleven: Love and Fear
• Chapter Twelve: A Moving Target
• Chapter Thirteen: Curtains
• Chapter Fourteen: Emilia
• Chapter Fifteen: The Touch of Wrath
• Chapter Sixteen: Sharp Things
• Chapter Seventeen: Banevale
• Chapter Eighteen: The Shadow of the Mountain
• Chapter Nineteen: Born Leaving
• Chapter Twenty: Wolves and Lambs
• Chapter Twenty-One: Astraea
• Chapter Twenty-Two: Sparks Fly Upward
• Chapter Twenty-Three: Bones Are for Protection
• Chapter Twenty-Four: Things Kept Secret
• Chapter Twenty-Five: The Ghost Path
• Chapter Twenty-Six: Anya Among the Gods
• Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Ones Who Went
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright