The Wolf and the Rain

After Global warming has divided the continent, the South, though drought-stricken, is completely controlled by an administration that values uniformity and all for one ideology; and the North is a rainy, mud-filled free-for-all of complete, unregulated chaos.

We are introduced to Sam, a Southern soldier pretending to be a Northerner, although we are never told why or how she comes to be here.  Through flash-backs we are able to see part of her early life in the South all the up until her training to defend the Southern territory.  We come to her some time after she has installed herself into life in the North.  After taking a liking to Ava, she learns that Ava’s daughter has gone missing.  Her desire to find the truth about the girl’s disappearance takes us into the darkest places that the North has to offer, his seething underbelly and it’s slimy corruption.

Sam learns that although the she is miles away from her former life in the South, it has a long reach and the answer to the problem she is trying to solve in the North may lie in her past.  

There was just enough missing from the flashback period to keep the reader wanting to have those gaps filled in.  Who is Sam really?  How did she come to be here? There was enough left open at the end to make for a good foundation on which to build a series.