Sin Eaters : R. R. Bowker : 9780578526799 : 0578526794 : 26 Aug 2019 : Civilization ended when living lightning became the world's apex predator. Hungry for modern technology, the lightning forced humanity to abandon its tools and return to a feudalism it hadn't experienced in 500 years. The sickly boy Fen is born on the wind-blown Siberian Steppe of this stricken world. Gifted by a near-fatal childhood illness with a bristling armor of ragged bone and a powerful vision for how the world must be, he struggles to grow into a powerful chieftain in time to protect the Endless Tribes of his feral home from a threat his people thought had died two centuries before. The Hollow Folk - the hidden remnant civilization that all who know the way of things know helped ruin the world - have returned to finish ravaging the surface of the earth. Two long centuries before Fen is born, in the modern world we call home, a lonely woman named Eliza sits slumped in the ruins of her career. Tempted by s