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No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden. In Garner County, girls are 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. Tierney James dreams of a better life—but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that there’s more to the annual ritual than she imagined. Their greatest threat may very well be each other. “A visceral, darkly haunting fever dream of a novel” (Libba Bray, bestselling author).