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The Incendiaries

A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into a cult's acts of terrorism.

Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet in their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe.

Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is drawn into a secretive cult founded by a charismatic former student with an enigmatic past. When the group commits a violent act in the name of faith, Will finds himself struggling to confront a new version of the fanaticism he's worked so hard to escape.

Haunting and intense, THE INCENDIARIES is a fractured love story that explores what can befall those who lose what they love most.

Audiobook available, read by Keong Sim

The Incendiaries
by R. O. Kwon

  • Publication Date: July 30, 2019
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Riverhead Books
  • ISBN-10: 0735213909
  • ISBN-13: 9780735213906