"Engel makes good use of her setting; the fight for survival on the cusp of winter stokes the sense of danger in a way that matches Ivy's roiling feelings, and the love story moves with the slow-growing heat that Ivy needs." -Kirkus...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "With more twists than a bag of pretzels, this compelling family saga may make you question what you think you know about your own relatives."-Cosmopolitan "Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we...

"From its gripping beginning to its sobering finale, Amy Engel's The Familiar Dark never fails to enthrall with surprising twists."-Associated PressA spellbinding story of a mother with nothing left to lose who sets out on an...

From the bestselling author of The Roanoke Girls comes a new novel with the same incredible atmosphere, strong sense of place and dark heart. The Familiar Dark will blow you away. In a small town beset by poverty in the Missouri Ozarks...

Discover the New York Times bestseller that SLJ called "A fantastic plot that makes readers think about the blurred lines between right and wrong."What would you kill for?After a brutal nuclear war, the United States was left decimated....

'In other places, the murder of two little girls would have blanketed the entire town in horror. Here, it was just another bad day.'Eve Taggert's life has been spent steadily climbing away from her roots. Her mother, a hard and cruel...

What would you kill for?After a brutal nuclear war, our country was decimated. A new nation of survivors lives within a fenced community. No one knows what lies beyond the fence...only that to be cast outside it is a fate worse than...

Beautiful, mysterious, rich... the Roanoke Girls seem to have it all.But there's a dark truth about them that's never spoken.Either girl either runs away, or dies. Lane is one of the lucky ones. When she was fifteen, over one long, hot...