First published 2015
Fei lives in a mountain village where everyone is deaf. Rocky cliffs and avalanches trap the villagers, who depend on food deliveries via zipline from the distant kingdom of Beiguo. When people start going blind and food shipments dwindle, hunger spreads through the community. One night, Fei wakes to a sharp sound. She can hear. This new ability becomes her tool for survival. She decides to discover what happened to her and fight the threats facing her village. A miner with bold ideas joins her mission, creating new dangers and the chance for love. Together they travel from their mountain home down to the valley kingdom of Beiguo. There they will learn a shocking truth that transforms everything they believed about their world.
Genres: romance, adventure, fantasy, young-adult
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: Beiguo, Mountain Village
267 pages · Hardcover · Razorbill