A Garden of Salt Series

The Stunning Debut Novel From Two-Time John W. Campbell Award Nominee Felicity Savage! An ordinary girl from the countryside ... sucked into a corrupt, elite society obsessed with sex and death. Humility never expected to leave her hardscrabble farming village, until Beau, her beautiful cousin, was chosen for the cruel ritual of ghosting. Now Delta City gleams like a diamond, drawing them to a future beyond their control and a destiny entwined with the world of Salt's. To survive in this decadent realm, Humility must work out who she really is ... and how far she's willing to go for justice. A Garden of Salt     Humility Garden     Delta City   "The young Humility of the title is as bold as the author herself." -- The New York Times "...Savage has a wondrously individual imagination, a gift for the sensuous detail, and a wit as dark as her Divinarch's." -- Locus "Humility Garden heralds one of the freshest and most interesting voices to enter fantasy in a long time. Felicity Savage has created memorable characters as quirky and complex as human beings...Read this book, and anything else Felicity Savage writes. You will be richly rewarded." -- Nancy Kress, author of Beggars in Spain

The remaining survivors of the old order began to plan their rebellion against the god Pati - and only one person could lead this revolt - Humility Garden. She vowed to retake Salt from the Divinarch, even if it meant giving up the very thing which kept her alive. Delta City is the second and final book of the duology A Garden of Salt. "The young Humility of the title is as bold as the author herself." -- The New York Times Book Review "...Savage has a wondrously individual imagination, a gift for the sensuous detail, and a wit as dark as her Divinarch's." -- Locus "Humility Garden heralds one of the freshest and most interesting voices to enter fantasy in a long time. Felicity Savage has created memorable characters as quirky and complex as human beings...Read this book, and anything else Felicity Savage writes. You will be richly rewarded." -- Nancy Kress, author of Beggars in Spain

This omnibus edition of Felicity Savage's debut duology, first published by Penguin ROC, includes Humility Garden and Delta City. Step into the world of Salt, where the gods have ruled among humans for centuries. Now a new movement has taken grip, denying the gods are masters and thrusting the world into chaos. Amid countless enemies, in a wondrous realm of divine beauty and ruthless politics, young Humility Garden embarks on a journey that will teach her the secret ways of the ghostiers--and the power of eternal love. In the sequel, Delta City, atheists and gods struggle for the hearts and minds of the populace. Young Humility Garden has been deposed along with the gods she served, and now faces her greatest challenge--to confront her enemies in the final battle between gods and men. "The young Humility of the title is as bold as the author herself." -- The New York Times Book Review "...Savage has a wondrously individual imagination, a gift for the sensuous detail, and a wit as dark as her Divinarch's." -- Locus "Humility Garden heralds one of the freshest and most interesting voices to enter fantasy in a long time. Felicity Savage has created memorable characters as quirky and complex as human beings...Read this book, and anything else Felicity Savage writes. You will be richly rewarded." -- Nancy Kress, author of Beggars in Spain