Jill Tew is the award-winning, critically-acclaimed Caribbean American author of dystopian romance and middle grade novels that imagine Black girls in exciting new worlds.

Her books have received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal, and have been featured in the New York Times, People, and elsewhere. Her debut The Dividing Sky was declared a best book of the year by Kirkus, Reactor Mag, Publishers Weekly, and Bookshop.org, and was featured in the New York Times as one of Veronica Roth’s favorite dystopian novels.

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In a 23rd century climate dystopia, a ragtag crew of Stormherders travels the plains of Oklahoma, searching for rare clouds they can coax into making precious rain.

Lowborn Milo has no business being smitten by his fellow crewmember, the beautiful, wealthy tech-whiz Tess Douglas. But when the bright flame of Tess's smile seems to extinguish overnight, he'll do anything to get it back-- even if it means breaking a rule or two.

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