{"product_id":"fable-for-the-end-of-the-world-by-ava-reid","title":"Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe epic standalone dystopian romance from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning and Lady Macbeth. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and The Last of Us\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy encouraging massive accumulations of debt, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town, barely scraping a living from their taxidermy shop. But their mother has secretly accrued enormous debt – and the only way out is to offer her daughter up to be a sacrifice for Caerus’s livestreamed assassination event: the Lamb’s Gauntlet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMelinoë is the assassin chosen for this spectacle. The product of years of neural reconditioning and physiological alteration, she’s a living weapon, famous for her cold brutality and deadly beauty. But she’s also haunted by her failure in the last gauntlet, when she broke down live on screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut as Mel pursues Inesa across the wasteland, each determined to claim victory, they begin to question what they’ve been taught. Could there be more to life than survival? Could they be capable of more than death?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCould they, against all the odds, be falling in love?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56733835919740,"sku":"9781804953792","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1427\/7594\/files\/New-2026-05-07T112751.183.png?v=1778150555","url":"https:\/\/shop.penguin.co.uk\/products\/fable-for-the-end-of-the-world-by-ava-reid","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}