Red in Tooth and Claw

A dark young adult Western fantasy about a teen in a remote settlement full of monsters and secrets. "In this eerie, blood-splashed Western, Lish McBride invokes a frontier that is harsh, cruel, and practical...A damned enjoyable novel." -Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Dark Crowns Faolan Kelly´s grandfather is dead. She´s alone in the world and suddenly homeless, all because the local powers that be don´t think a young man of sixteen is mature enough to take over his grandfather´s homestead…and that´s with them thinking Faolan is a young man. If she revealed that her grandfather had been disguising her for years, they would marry her off at the first opportunity. The mayor finds a solution that serves everyone but Faolan: He hires a gunslinger to ship her off to the Settlement, a remote fort where social outcasts live under the leadership of His Benevolence Gideon Dillard. It´s a place rife with mystery, kept afloat by suspicious wealth. Dillard´s absolute command over his staff just doesn´t seem right. And neither do the strange noises that keep Faolan up at night. When Faolan finds the body of a Settlement boarder, mangled by something that can´t possibly be human, it´s clear something vicious is stalking the palisades. And as Settlement boarders continue to drop like flies, Faolan knows she must escape to evade the creature´s wrath.