One of TIME’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time
Winner — 2019 Locus Award for Best First Novel
Finalist — 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel
Finalist — Nebula Award for Best Novel
One of Bustle’s Top 20 “Landmark Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels” of the Decade
Praise for Trail of Lightning
“Someone please cancel Supernatural already and give us at least five seasons of this badass Indigenous monster-
hunter and her silver-tongued sidekick.”
— The New York Times
“An excitingly novel tale.”
— Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse and Midnight Crossroads series
“Fun, terrifying, hilarious, and brilliant.”
— Daniel José Older, New York Times bestselling author of Shadowshaper and Star Wars: Last Shot
“A powerful and fiercely personal journey through a compelling postapocalyptic landscape.”
— Kate Elliott, New York Times bestselling author of Court of Fives and Black Wolves
Description
While most of the world has drowned beneath the rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah — formerly the Navajo reservation — has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land once more… but so do monsters.
It falls to one young woman to unravel the mysteries of the past before they destroy the future.
Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter — a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town calls on her to find a missing girl, Maggie becomes their last hope. But what she uncovers about the creature she’s hunting is far more terrifying than she could imagine.
Reluctantly, Maggie teams up with Kai Arviso, an unconventional medicine man, and together they crisscross the rez, following clues from ancient legends, trading favors with tricksters, and facing down dark witchcraft in a world where old magic meets crumbling technology.
As Maggie discovers the truth behind the killings, she must confront her past — or risk losing her future.
Welcome to the Sixth World.