Publisher's Synopsis
Thieves crept into the Hollow one Mid-Summer night and took Penelope Bell. Lovely, dark-eyed Penelope.
The Hollow is a peaceful village, a farming backwater among the free cities of the Western Lands, but when a local girl named Penelope Bell is kidnapped from her home in the middle of the night, that peace is shattered. Unwilling to accept the loss of Penelope, a young striker named Gabriel Rain joins Penelope's brother and sister on a quest to bring her home. Their journey takes them across the dangerous Grasslands and as far as the legendary Ragged Mountains, where they find themselves caught between two sides of a bloody war. Along the way, they face dark wizards, ancient gods, and discover that the Ragged Mountains always take as much as they yield. Action packed and heartfelt, The Ragged Mountains is epic YA Fantasy at its finest.
