Trail of Lightning

2019 Locus Award Winner, Best First Novel
2019 Hugo Award Finalist, Best Novel
2019 Nebula Award Finalist, Best Novel

Gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters and Maggie Hoskie is Dinetah's best, last hope in this award-winning debut novel.

While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinetah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.

Maggie Hoskie is a Dinetah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last best hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much more terrifying than anything she could imagine.

Maggie reluctantly enlists the aid of Kai Arviso, an unconventional medicine man, and together they travel the rez, unravelling clues from ancient legends, trading favours with tricksters, and battling dark witchcraft in a patchwork world of deteriorating technology.

As Maggie discovers the truth behind the killings, she will have to confront her past if she wants to survive.

Welcome to the Sixth World.

About the Author

Rebecca Roanhorse is speculative fiction writer, winner of the Locus Award and Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy and Sturgeon Award finalist. She is also a 2017 Campbell Award Finalist for Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy writer. Her novel Trail of Lightning is the first book in the Sixth World series, followed by Storm of Locusts. She lives in northern New Mexico with her husband, daughter, and pug.