When you have nowhere left to run, the only place is the sky...

Saria is the last of her kind, the final child of the Darklands, a quarantined expanse of outback desert, contaminated hundreds of years earlier by the remote and mysterious Nightpeople. In a dying world, she is the last ray of hope.

Spirited away at her birth before the Nightpeople could remove her from the genetic pool, Saria, now in her early teens, is summoned to appear before the Council of Dreamers. There she discovers the story of her past, and the nightmare truth of her people's future, and as history draws the Darklanders towards an inevitable fate, Saria determines to take the only course available to her, whatever the cost.

Nightpeople, the first book of the Darklands trilogy, explores a society turned in on itself and a future which readers will find both alien and disturbingly familiar.

Praise for Nightpeople

"This book is a stunner.." - The Herald Sun

Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Australian Children's Book, 2006

"An outstanding novel... superb writing, a thoroughly engrossing story, and utterly credible charcters trapped in a future world that is as fascinating as it is dangerous" - Van Ikin

Shortlisted - Aurealis Awards for Australian Speculative Fiction, Best Adult Fantasy, 2006, Best Young Adult Fantasy 2006

"Eaton has excelled in the creation of wilfull Saria and the contaminated land she belongs to. Her character is resourceful and gifted: the landscape barren and uncompromising. It's a compelling combination, assuredly written, that made this reader yearn for more. Highly recommended for older readers" - Reading Times

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