The Fifth Season

The Great Red Rift opens across the middle of the world's only continent, and the ash it throws up hides the sun. In the Stillness, people know disaster well, and the power of the earth is used as a weapon. A son is killed and a daughter has vanished. Betrayal drags old, buried hurts into the open. The novel explores loss, violence and a society without mercy, and it is the first book of the Broken Earth trilogy.

Why You Should Read?

• Discover the Stillness, where disaster is familiar and the earth's own force is turned into a weapon.
• Follow a story that begins with a son's murder and a daughter who has gone missing.
• Experience a world under a sky darkened by ash from an enormous rift in the continent.
• Explore how betrayal stirs up old wounds in a society that shows no mercy.