The Wanderers
by Kate Ormand
Release Date: August 18th
About the Book
A Unique Twist on Shape-Shifters with Fast-Paced Action, Thrilling Adventure, Mystery, and a Bit of Romance
Flo lives an eccentric life—she travels with a popular circus in which the main acts star orphaned children with secret shape-shifting abilities. Once Flo turns sixteen, she must perform, but she’s not ready. While practicing jumping a flaming hurdle in a clearing beside the circus, she spots a dark figure in the trees and fears he saw her shift. The news sends the circus into a panic.
In Flo’s world, shifters are unknown to humans with the exception of a secret organization—the EOS, referred to as “hunters.” Hunters capture and kill. They send some shifters to labs for observation and testing—testing they don’t often survive—and deem others useless, a danger to society, and eliminate them. To avoid discovery, shifters travel in packs, constantly moving and keeping themselves hidden. Up until now, the circus was the perfect disguise.
Believing she has brought attention to the group, Flo feels dread and anxiety, causing her to make a mistake during her performance in front of the audience—a mistake that triggers a violent attack from the hunters.
Flo manages to flee the torched circus grounds with Jett, the bear shifter who loves her; the annoying elephant triplets; and a bratty tiger named Pru. Together they begin a new journey, alone in a world they don’t understand and don’t know how to navigate. On the run, they unravel secrets and lies that surround the circus and their lives—secrets and lies that all point to the unthinkable: Have they been betrayed by the people they trusted most?
To learn more about this book and see our review, go HERE.
About the Author
Kate Ormand is the author of Dark Days. She graduated from university with a degree in fine art painting. There, she discovered her love of reading YA books, prompting her to try a new creative angle and experiment with writing. Kate also writes children’s picture books under the name Kate Louise. She lives in Cheshire, England, with her family, her partner, and a cocker spaniel named Freddie.
Giveaway Details
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During each giveaway, we ask entrants a question pertaining to the book. Here is the question they’ll be answering in the comments below for extra entries: What do you think of the cover & synopsis?
The shape shifting sounds intriguing and the story of Circus mysteries, very good!
I’ve been watching this one for awhile, intrigued by the cover and synopsis!
The cover is beautiful, and the story sounds unique and complex!
I LOVE the cover and the idea of shifters hiding in plain sight at the circus!
interesting
The cover & synopsis are interesting. Definitely going on my TBR list.
I love animals and circus life
The cover looks peculiar (in a good way). It is very mysterious and creepy, I LIKE IT! This book sounds awesomeee.
I love the cover! And the synopsis sounds VERY unique, I don’t think I have heard of anything quite like this before 🙂
The shapeshifting children reminds me a bit of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. The children in this book sound peculiar too! I love the cover; the shadows of the animals inside the tent is really cool.
I love the cover and if it had not been the synopsis I would not have guessed it was about shapeshifters. It does remind me of the Miss Peregrine series as well, but I am still interested in reading it.
It looks amazing and the cover reminds me of The Night Circus!
I love the colours of the cover! It has a sort of authentic sideshow feel, and the idea of shapeshifters and Hunters is really intriguing. Everything I love.
It seems very interesting. I can’t wait!!
I like the cover and how you can see the shapes behind the tent side.
This sounds awesome! I’m so glad I found this 😀
i LOVE the cover and the story sounds AMAZING!!!
I don’t particularly like the cover’s color scheme, but the synopsis more then makes up for that, it sounds really interesting.
Aaah! The synopsis is so good, and I want to read it soo bad now! And the cover kinda gives me the creeps…
The cover is haunting and intriguing. I would definitely pick it up off a book store or library shelf and examine it more closely.
I like the cover and I really like the excerpt. This sounds like a good story with good characters. This is on my must read list now!
Love the cover!
Love the cover!
Awesome story and I love the cover!