"Absorbing, stunning, and emotionally rich." --Locus 

  The journey through M. R. Carey's "immersive, impeccably rendered world" (Kirkus) -- a world in which nature has turned against us -- continues in The Trials of Koli, book two of the Rampart Trilogy. 

  The earth wants to swallow us whole... 

  Koli never planned to set foot outside his small village. He knew that beyond its walls lay a fearsome landscape filled with choker trees, vicious beasts and Shunned men. But when he was exiled, he had no choice but to journey out into this strange world where every moment is a fight for survival. 

  And it's not just Koli's life that is threatened. Whole villages just like his are dying out. 

  But Koli heard a story, once. A story about lost London, and the mysterious tech of the Old Times that may still be there. If he can find it, there may still be a way for him to change his own fate - by saving the lives of those who are left. 

 

  The Rampart Trilogy  The Book of Koli  The Trials of Koli  The Fall of Koli 

  For more from M. R. Carey, check out:  The Girl With All the Gifts  Fellside  The Boy on the Bridge  Someone Like Me 

  By the same author, writing as Mike Carey:  The Devil You Know  Vicious Circle  Dead Men's Boots  Thicker Than Water  The Naming of the Beasts