The Water Will Fall - by Billy Ray (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

A new generation of characters must fight and find love in this searing companion to The Hunger Games screenwriter Billy Ray's epic dystopian romance, Burn the Water, perfect for fans of Lightlark. The stakes have never been higher...

Jule never wanted to be a leader.

But with foreigners at their shores and war still threatening her people, Jule must lead once more, despite her devastating losses. Yet as Jule, Byron, and the two formerly warring Houses navigate life after peace and begin the long process of rebuilding, enemies conspire in the dark to bring New London to its knees.

Eighteen years later, Hope, Jule's daughter, struggles to live up to her mother's reputation: war hero, fearless soldier, saint. When a new enemy lays claim to New London, Hope finds her heart torn between love and loyalty, just as her mother once did. And she must step up to defend the only home she's ever known in a war that will force her, her family, and all of New London to question everything.

In this stunning sequel to Burn the Water from award-winning The Hunger Games screenwriter Billy Ray, a new generation of fighters will be put to the test while romance flares, and peace has never felt more tenuous.

Review Quotes

Praise for Burn the Water:

"Ray deftly examines the brutality of war across and evocatively depicted vision of a future drowned metropolis." -- Publishers Weekly

"Ray builds a grim, brutal world on the bones of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet... allowing the characters here enough depth and distinction to make this a unique endeavor." -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

About the Author

Billy Ray is one of modern Hollywood's preeminent screenwriters and the author of Burn the Water. He wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for Captain Phillips, for which he won the Writers Guild of America Award. Ray's films as writer, co-writer, or writer-director include The Hunger Games, Richard Jewell, Shattered Glass, Showtime's The Comey Rule, and the forthcoming Sunrise on the Reaping. Billy lives in Los Angeles. He believes in democracy, justice, his children, and the Dodgers.