I’m so excited to be hosting my very first cover reveal for Adriana Ryan‘s dystopian novel, World of Shell and Bone! You might remember from my last post that I’m thankful for the amazing writers I’ve met over the last year? Well, Adriana is one of those writers. We’ve been corresponding for months, and I can tell you she’s a wonderful person along with being a fantastic author.
World of Shell and Bone will be released December 7th. I’ll be among the first to buy it, and I hope you’ll join me. Here is her gorgeous, provocative cover, along with a description of the book. Enjoy, and let me know what you think when you read it!
Cover by: James Helps (humblenations.com)
In a world ravaged by a nuclear holocaust, Vika Cannon knows there are no guarantees: no guarantees of safety, no guarantees that your neighbor is not actually a spy for the government, and no guarantees you’ll be allowed to emigrate to a new life in Asia.
New Amana is dying. Food and water are scarce, and people suffering from radiation-caused mutations—the Nukeheads—are the new class of homeless.
Vika has just one purpose: to produce healthy progeny using a Husband assigned by the Match Clinic. Unhealthy children are carted away to Asylums to be experimented on, just as Vika’s little sister Ceres was, eight years ago. Parents incapable of producing healthy progeny are put to death in gas chambers.
When she’s assigned a Husband shortly after her twentieth birthday, Vika expects him to be complacent and obedient. But Shale Underwood has a secret. He is a member of the Radicals, the terrorist group intent on overthrowing the government. And Shale has information about Ceres.
As she learns more about the Rads’s plan, Vika finds herself drawn to Shale in ways she’d never imagined. When freedom calls in the way of a healthy pregnancy, will she betray her government and risk death for Shale and Ceres?
Adriana Ryan lives and writes in Charleston, SC. She is currently at work on a dystopian and an urban fantasy series. A huge fan of spooky stuff and shoes, she enjoys alternately hitting up the outlet malls and historic graveyards.
Adriana Ryan is a member of the Romance Writer’s Association (RWA).
Contact: Adriana@adrianaryan.com
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