When the Rain Came

<B>The rain never stops. The world is drowning. Survival is everything. This is the first book in a new</B><B> gripping dystopian adventure series for young adult readers by <I>New York Times </I>bestselling author Matt Eicheldinger.</B><BR><BR><I>“If we stay here, if we keep wandering without a real plan, we won’t last. Maybe The Hill is dangerous. But maybe it’s not. Maybe it’s the only plan we have.”</I><BR>   <BR><BR> Sixteen-year-old Aurora knows how to survive. Life in the foster system has taught her how to stay quiet, stay smart, and stay ready. But nothing could prepare her for <I>this</I>: a never-ending storm that swallows cities, drowns forests, and turns the world into a flooded wasteland.<BR><BR> Trapped in a collapsing house with her strict prepper foster parents, Aurora is forced to live by their rules just to stay alive. Until the day they disappear without a trace.<BR><BR><B>Alone</B>. <B>Abandoned</B>. And<B> running out of time</B>.<BR><BR> All Aurora has is a waterlogged scrap of paper and a name: “The Hill.” With looters closing in and the floodwaters rising higher each day, she’s left with <B>one impossible choice</B>—stay and wait for the storm to take her, or risk everything on a journey through the drowned remains of the world, to a find a place that may or not exist.<BR><BR> It’s forward or nothing.<BR><BR> With echoes of <I>Life As We Knew It</I>, <I>The Last of Us</I>, and <I>Hatchet</I>, Aurora’s story is a <B>gripping, emotionally resonant survival story</B> about <B>resilience, found family</B>, and <B>one girl’s fight to reclaim her future in a drowning world.</B>