The Thaw Chronicles

The ice went, and the water came, and the world as it was went under with it. What surfaces afterward is the ground The Thaw Chronicles walks: a young-adult dystopia of a drowned age, where a remade humanity scrapes order out of the wreckage of the old one, and the young inherit rules they never got a say in. Heidi Catherine and Tamar Sloan build this world together, one thread in a larger partnership of more than twenty co-authored YA dystopian novels. The Thaw branches into four arcs. After the Thaw and Beyond the Thaw carry the main story forward through the reshaped world; Origins of Thaw reaches back toward how it all came apart; and Tournaments of Thaw turns the survivors' hard-won order into a proving ground, where the young are set against one another and belonging has to be won. The pull here is the familiar engine of the genre driven with real feeling: first love and impossible choices under a system that decides who counts, told close and told fast. Newcomers should start with After the Thaw and follow the water forward from there.