It's also hard being treated like a child and expected to go to school when she's spent so many years fending for herself and helping to protect others in her role as a hunter. She's not comfortable with the way they expect girls to dress nicely and learn useful skills like cooking and sewing and the town just don't know what to make of her tomboyish ways.

Visit Ann Aguirre's website for more informationĮverything is different now that Deuce and the others have arrived at Salvation and she's finding it hard to fit in. Restoration (Free short story on the MacMillan website) The monsters don’t intend to let Salvation survive, and it may take a girl like Deuce to turn back the tide.įoundation (Free short story on the Tor website) It should be routine, but things have been changing on the surface, just as they did below ground.

Confused and lonely, she starts looking for a way out.ĭeuce signs up to serve in the summer patrols-those who make sure the planters can work the fields without danger. Her feelings for Fade haven’t changed, but he seems not to want her around anymore. To make matters worse, her Hunter partner, Fade, keeps Deuce at a distance. She doesn't fit in with the other girls: Deuce only knows how to fight. Now, topside in a town called Salvation, she’s a brat in need of training in the eyes of the townsfolk.

Outpost by Ann Aguirre