

They’re being chased by some dangerous people, but the folks who run this train, quirky outsiders who have found a sense of family crossing this desolate land together, wind up being formidable allies.

When she encounters Anna, who has near-total amnesia after barely surviving a meteor storm, and who sports a tattoo that marks her as protected by the king, Piper develops a risky plan: to take Anna to the authorities who might help the lost girl rediscover her identity, which involves boarding the 401, a train that can take them to the capital. Piper, a thirteen-year-old in a bleak dystopic world, knows that she needs to get out of the salvage town in which she lives alone as an orphan, where folks only survive by picking up the strange treasures thrown out of the sky after violent meteor strikes.
