Amy Engel Knihy

From the bestselling author of The Roanoke Girls comes a new novel with the same incredible atmosphere, strong sense of place and dark heart. The Familiar Dark will blow you away. In a small town beset by poverty in the Missouri Ozarks two 12-year-old girls are found dead in the park. Their throats have been cut. Eve Taggert's daughter was one of them. Desperate with grief, she takes it upon herself to find out the truth about what happened to her little girl. Eve is no stranger to the dark side of life - having been raised by a hard-edged mother whose parenting lessons she tried hard not to mimic. But with her daughter gone, Eve has no reason to stay soft. And she is going to need her mother's cruel brand of strength if she's going to face the truth about her daughter's death.

Returning to her family's Kansas estate in the hopes of discovering the fate of her missing cousin, Lane reconnects with a young man from her past and is confronted by dark family secrets that prompted her to flee years earlier

"Engel makes good use of her setting; the fight for survival on the cusp of winter stokes the sense of danger in a way that matches Ivy's roiling feelings, and the love story moves with the slow-growing heat that Ivy needs." —Kirkus Reviews Beyond the fence. I am still alive. Barely. My name is Ivy Westfall. I am sixteen years old and a traitor. Three months ago, I was forced to marry the president's son, Bishop Lattimer—as all daughters of the losing side of the war are sold off in marriage to the sons of the winners. But I was different. I had a mission-to kill Bishop. Instead, I fell in love with him. Now I am an outcast, left to survive the brutal savagery of the lands outside of civilization. Yet even out here, there is hope. There is life beyond the fence. But I can't outrun my past. For my actions have set off a treasonous chain of events in Westfall that will change all of our fates—especially Bishop's. And this time, it is not enough to just survive...

In an apocalyptic future where girls from the losing faction are forcibly married to boys of the winning faction, sixteen-year-old Ivy is tasked to kill her fiancé Bishop, although when she finally meets him, he is not the monster she has been led to believe

From the bestselling author of The Roanoke Girls comes a riveting mystery and poignant exploration of guilt, loss and devastation.

Dopo una guerra nucleare senza precedenti, la popolazione degli Stati Uniti è decimata. Un piccolo gruppo di sopravvissuti entra in conflitto per decidere quale famiglia andrà al governo del nuovo mondo. Il clan dei Westfalls perde lo scontro con quello dei Lattimer. Passano cinquant’anni e la comunità è ancora in pace, ma il prezzo è alto: ogni anno un rito assicura l’equilibro forzato tra le famiglie e così una delle figlie dei perdenti deve andare in sposa a uno dei figli di quella vincente. Quest’anno, è il mio turno. Il mio nome è Ivy Westfall, e la mia missione è semplice: uccidere il figlio del capo dei Lattimer, Bishop, il mio promesso sposo, e restituire il potere alla mia famiglia. Ma Bishop sembra molto scaltro oppure non è il ragazzo spietato e senza cuore che mi avevano detto. Sembra anche essere l’unica persona in questo mondo che veramente mi capisce, ma non posso sottrarmi al destino, io sono l’unica che può riportare i Westfall al potere. E perché questo accada, Bishop deve morire per mano mia…