Valley of Fires

VALLEY OF FIRES had won the 2014 RT BOOK REVIEWS Reviewers' Choice Awards for best Science Fiction Novel!

J. Barton Mitchell's sci-fi tour de force Conquered Earth series concludes as the characters try and unite Earth's disparate survivors to overthrow its alien invaders once and for all.

The Severed Tower is no more. Zoey has been taken by the Assembly, and time is running out. Just as their feelings are finally out in the open, Holt Hawkins and Mira Toombs are forced apart onto individual quests to try and unite Earth's survivors against their alien invaders.

Mira ventures west, holding together a fragile coalition of Wind Traders, White Helix, and rebel Assembly, a mix of groups that do not trust the other. The voices of the Assembly in Mira's head threaten to drive her mad, and she soon learns a grim reality: that the one resource they have on their side, the Strange Lands artifacts, are dying, and soon the world will be a very different place.

Meanwhile, Holt travels with Ravan and Avril to Faust, the dangerous desert city of the Menagerie pirate guild. He goes not only to resolve his issues with Tiberius, its tyrannical leader, but to enlist the Menagerie in the fight to save Zoey. Except Tiberius has his own problems. The Menagerie is splintering, word of rebellion is spreading. If Holt wants their help, he might have to side with his greatest enemy in exchange.

Valley of Fires is the final installment in J. Barton Mitchell's Conquered Earth series, following Midnight City and The Severed Tower, and it brings the genre-bending series to an utterly unforgettable close.

Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 12/02/2014
Pages: 416
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781250009487
Age: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2014
Romantic Times 12/01/2014 pg. 42 - Excellent
Booklist 11/15/2014 pg. 48
Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2014 - Reviewed - More Editing Needed
School Library Journal 01/01/2015 pg. 119

About the Author

J. BARTON MITCHELL is a screenwriter, comic book writer, and author. He studied creative writing at the University of Houston before going on to receive a B.S. in Film Studies from the University of Texas. After selling screenplays to Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox, he created and wrote the comic book series Poe, published by Boom! Studios in 2009. Mitchell's books include Midnight City, The Severed Tower, and Valley of Fires. He lives and writes in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles.