Jake Halpern & Peter Kujawinski 
Edgeland 

The companion novel to the New York Times bestselling NIGHTFALL



Thousands of miles due south from the Polar North is is the island of Edgeland. Here, day and night last for 72 hours. And here is one of the natural wonders of this world: a whirlpool thirty miles wide and a hundred miles around. This is the Drain. Anything sucked into its frothing, turbulent waters is never seen again.



Wren has spent most of her life on Edgeland, watching people bring their dead to the island’s famous bone houses to be blessed and prepared for the afterlife. There the dead are loaded into boats with treasure and sent over the cliff, and into the Drain. Orphaned and alone, Wren dreams of escaping Edgeland, and her chance finally comes when furriers from the Polar north arrive with their dead, and treasure for their dead.



With the help of her friend Alec, Wren plans to loot one of the boats before it enters the Drain. But the boat – with Alec and Wren onboard – is sucked into the whirlpool. What they discover over the abyss is beyond what either of them could have imagined.

About the author

For eighteen years, Peter Kujawinski was an American diplomat, on assignment in places like Israel, Haiti and France and at the United Nations in New York. Most recently, he was the U.S. Consul General in western Canada, which included Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories. While working as a diplomat, he started to write for adults and children. He has contributed to the international edition of the New York Times, and with co-author Jake Halpern, Peter wrote the Dormia trilogy (Dormia, World’s End and Shadow Tree). He lives in Chicago with his family. Follow Peter at www.peterkujawinski.com or on Twitter: @kujawinski