The instant New York Times bestseller, Kim Liggett's The Grace Year is a speculative YA thriller in the vein of The Hunger Games and The Power, now in trade paperback.
No one speaks of the grace year. It's forbidden.In Garner County, girls are banished for their sixteenth year to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage.But not all of them will make it home alive.Tierney James dreams of a better life--but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that there's more to fear about the grace year than the brutal elements and the poachers in the woods.Their greatest threat may very well be each other.With sharp prose and gritty realism, Liggett's The Grace Year examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between.Kim Ligget
Kim Liggett is an American bestselling author known for dark young adult fiction that blends psychological suspense, horror, dystopian themes, and atmospheric storytelling. Her novels often explore power, fear, identity, survival, and the expectations placed on young women, creating unsettling worlds where tradition, secrecy, and control can become as dangerous as any supernatural threat.
Liggett is the author of *The Grace Year*, *Blood and Salt*, *Heart of Ash*, and *The Last Harvest*. Her bestselling novel *The Grace Year* follows a group of teenage girls sent away for a year of isolation under the belief that they must rid themselves of dangerous magic before returning to society. Through its disturbing premise, the novel examines gender expectations, oppression, friendship, betrayal, and the ways fear can be used to maintain power.
For readers who enjoy dark, thought-provoking stories that keep them questioning the rules of the world around them, Liggett offers fiction that combines suspense with powerful social themes. Her books are especially suited to readers who enjoy dystopian fiction, psychological horror, feminist themes, survival stories, morally complicated characters, and unsettling mysteries where the greatest danger may come from the society the characters have been taught to trust.
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