The Good Luck Girls

In the dust-choked territory of Arketta, poor families sell their daughters to "welcome houses," where the girls are branded with cursed markings called favors and raised to entertain the men who can pay. On her Lucky Night — the night she is to be initiated — Clementine accidentally kills a braggart, and five of the house's girls run for their lives: Aster, the protector; Violet, the house favorite; Tansy, the medic; Mallow, the fighter; and Clementine herself. With bounty hunters behind them, they cross the Scab country following the one hope they have — the bedtime legend of the Lady Ghost, said to guide runaway girls to freedom. Davis's debut novel, a western built as dystopia, was an Indie Next Pick and a Nautilus Silver winner.

Author: Charlotte Nicole Davis · Original publisher: Tor Teen (New York), 2019