Sheine Lende: A Prequel to Elatsoe

Written by Darcie Little Badger and Rovina Cai

Narrated by Kinsale Drake

Shane works with her mother and their ghost dogs, tracking down missing persons even when their families can’t afford to pay. Their own family was displaced from their traditional home years ago following a devastating flood—and the loss of Shane’s father and her grandparents. They don’t think they’ll ever get their home back.

Then Shane’s mother and a local boy go missing after a strange interaction with a fairy ring. Shane, her brother, her friends, and her lone, surviving grandparent—who isn’t to be trusted—set off on the road to find them. But they may not be anywhere in this world—or this place in time.

No matter what it takes or where it takes her, Shane is going to find them.

Darcie Little Badger’s Elatsoe launched her career, and in the years since has become a beloved favorite. This prequel, centered on Ellie’s grandmother, deepens and expands Darcie’s one-of-a-kind world and introduces us to another cast of characters that will wend their way around readers’ hearts.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 16, 2024
• ISBN: 9798891784352

Darcie Little Badger

Darcie Little Badger is an Earth scientist, writer, and fan of the weird, beautiful, and haunting. She is an enrolled member of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas. Her Locus Award-winning debut novel, <i>Elatsoe</i>, was a National Indie Bestseller, named to over a dozen best-of-year lists, and called one of the Best 100 Fantasy Novels of All Time by <i>TIME</i>. Her second novel, <i>A Snake Falls to Earth</i> was longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and received a Newbery Award Honor.