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The Vulpine


A Young Adult Dystopian Novel


Subgenres:

  • Disability Representation,
  • Folklore-Inspired,
  • Slow-Burn Romance
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Dystopias where disability and illness are forbidden
  • Underground rebellions rooted in eerie folklore
  • Own-voices stories with disabled heroes and slow-burn romance
Publisher Description

Enter a darkly dystopian world full of eerie folklore, in which illness and difference have been prohibited. But from deep beneath the earth, a rebellion is rising...

Ora has always been fascinated by chilling fairy stories of the Vulpine – the mythical, fox-like monsters who live below ground, emerging at night to snatch "imperfect" babies and children. Because Ora knows that disability and illness have no place in her world. To succeed is to be genetically "perfect", just like her best friend Casta and his family.

Then, one day, Casta's baby sister disappears. And Ora's mother reveals a long-buried secret: Ora herself has a genetic illness that affects her lungs... And she's about to be found out.

Desperate for answers and sanctuary, Ora decides to do the unthinkable and seek out the fabled Vulpine. And below the earth, she discovers a hidden world that turns everything she has been taught upside-down...

A unique and powerful story about stepping into your power and creating a better world, with a brilliant cast of disabled heroes, from an author whose own experiences of chronic illness inform Ora's. A chilling dystopian world filled with eerie science fiction and a sweet, slow-burn romance.

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