For readers of The Outsiders and The Raven Boys, with the messy, feral edge of The Foxhole Court.
In the Dragon District, broken kids make dangerous family.
Skadi is twelve, furious, and one bad night away from disappearing for good.
Then she ends up in a filthy apartment above the Dragon District with Falcon and Sparrow—two violent, damaged teens with too much blood on their hands, too many ghosts at their backs, and a habit of collecting strays they have no business trying to keep alive.
It should be temporary.
Instead, it becomes the closest thing Skadi has ever had to a home.
Behind that apartment door, she finds something fragile and feral: Sparrow’s reckless loyalty, Falcon’s rough-edged protection, and a bond sharp enough to survive hunger, fear, and the constant threat waiting outside. For the first time in her life, Skadi has people who make room for her.
But nothing good survives untouched in Novadorin.
The Dragon District was built to devour kids like them, and the Drac Hounds don’t stop hunting just because their prey found somewhere to hide. As danger closes in and the apartment starts to crack under the weight of violence, loyalty, and betrayal, Skadi learns fast that survival always costs something.
And when the walls finally come down, she’ll have to decide who she’s willing to become for the only people who ever chose her.
This Apartment Eats Strays is a dark, gritty found-family novel about survival, trauma, loyalty, and the brutal love that grows between kids the world already gave up on.
