Nameless

by Jennifer Jenkins

Overview

Four clans have been at war for centuries: the Kodiak, the Raven, the Wolf, and the Ram. Through brutal war tactics, the Ram have dominated the region, inflicting death and destruction on their neighbors.

Seventeen-year-old Zo is a Wolf and a healer who volunteers to infiltrate the Ram as a spy on behalf of the allied clans. She offers herself as a Ram slave, joining the people who are called the Nameless. Hers is a suicide mission - Zo's despair after losing her parents in a Ram raid has left her seeking both revenge and an end to her own misery. But after her younger sister follows her into Ram's Gate, Zo must find a way to survive her dangerous mission and keep her sister safe. What she doesn't expect to find is the friendship of a young Ram whose life she saves, the confusing feelings she develops for a Ram soldier, and an underground Nameless insurrection. Zo learns that revenge, loyalty, and love are more complicated than she ever imagined.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781648396007
Publisher:	Oliver-Heber Books
Publication date:	03/27/2024
Series:	Nameless Trilogy , #1
Pages:	354
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.79(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Jennifer Jenkins is the author of seven published novels and one non-fiction guide to creative writing. She serves as the Executive Director of Operation Literacy, a national 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to promoting children's literacy. She has taught at universities across the country on the subjects of writing, story, leadership, and entrepreneurship. She divides her free time between reading, taking spontaneous trips, researching random events from the past, and fostering her adrenaline junkie addictions.

Editorial Reviews

"Jenkins brings edge-of-your-seat adventure to this intriguing new world. I can’t wait to read more!”  —Jessica Day George, author, Tuesdays at the Castle


“Solid worldbuilding draws readers into the clans and makes them, unlike Zo, regretful to leave the walls of the Rams. The love stories are both touching and perfectly tied in with the major story arc of an impending war between the clans. The intricacy of the relationships among characters and between them and their society makes even the most antagonistic of the Rams sympathetic. Readers will feel the absence of back story, but Jenkins' complex characterizations mitigate this creative sin. Readers will be cheering for the underdogs and begging for the second volume.”  —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2015-10-19
Beware wolves in bears' clothing. Four clans have been at war for ages: the powerful and destructive Ram, the Wolf, the Kodiak, and the Raven. The last three, in order to survive, have banded together to form the Allied Clan. As part of a move to infiltrate and destroy, Zo—a 17-year-old Wolf and healer—volunteers herself for the sake of the cause. She arrives at Ram's Gate pretending to be Kodiak and throwing herself at the mercy of the Rams—with, unbeknownst to her, her younger sister right behind. Thus begins Zo's journey to save her people and keep herself and her sister alive in the process. Along the way, she gains the friendship of a young Ram, becomes tangled in an unpredicted romance with a Ram soldier, and discovers plans for a Nameless uprising. Solid worldbuilding draws readers into the clans and makes them, unlike Zo, regretful to leave the walls of the Rams. The love stories are both touching and perfectly tied in with the major story arc of an impending war between the clans. The intricacy of the relationships among characters and between them and their society makes even the most antagonistic of the Rams sympathetic. Readers will feel the absence of back story, but Jenkins' complex characterizations mitigate this creative sin. Readers will be cheering for the underdogs and begging for the second volume. (Fantasy. 14 & up)

Kirkus Reviews