It’s here! The cover of the prequel novella to Lindsay Cummings’s debut novel, The Murder Complex. The novella, The Fear Trials releases May 27, 2014 from HarperTeen Impulse in anticipation to the June 10th release of The Murder Complex, which is one of my most anticipated reads of 2014!

Meadow Woodson has been trained to survive. This is a prequel to The Murder Complex, by Lindsay Cummings, and it is set in a blood-soaked world where the murder rate is higher than the birth rate. For fans of Moira Young’s Dust Lands series, La Femme Nikita, and the movie Hanna.

Meadow Woodson’s father calls it The Fear Trials, and it is a rite of passage in their family. Meadow is up against her brother Koi. The Fear Trials will both harden her and make her brave. If Meadow wins, she will get a weapon of her own and the right to leave the Woodsons’ houseboat without her father or mother at her side. Set in the violent, complex, and mysterious world of The Murder Complex, and introducing Meadow Woodson—a teenage girl trained to survive no matter what the cost—and her family, who are together for the last time on their houseboat in the Florida Everglades.

I can’t wait to read this! May can’t come soon enough!

The Fear Trials is $1.99 and available to pre-order now.