The Grace Year

In Garner County, girls are banished for their sixteenth year because the community believes they possess dangerous magic that must be spent before marriage. Tierney James enters the forbidden grace year already questioning the rules that govern her future. In the northern wilderness, exposure and poachers are not the only threats. Competition and fear divide the exiled girls, forcing Tierney to decide whom she can trust and whether survival requires accepting the system or resisting it. The novel follows her effort to understand how that system sustains itself and to claim control over her own life.