The Inheritance

They give her a dead girl's name. They love her. That is the cruelty of it.

Part of The Wardenry — Book 2

On the far side of a sealed border, in a country that calls the taking of children a mercy, a family has been found worthy to receive one.

The child is not theirs. She was carried across a firth in the dark, caught at the water, and delivered to be remade into the daughter another family lost. They give her a dead girl's name, a dead girl's room, a dead girl's history — and they love her. That is the cruelty of it. A hundred miles north, her real mother works the smuggling roads to find which stream the regime sorted her into.

The Inheritance is the second novel of the Wardenry, C.M. Swinney's near-future dystopia of a broken Britain — a book about erasure, and the dangerous, patient work of remembering who you were.

For readers of The Handmaid's Tale, Never Let Me Go, and Prophet Song. The trilogy is complete.

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