Between Wild and Ruin
Series: Book One of the "Wild and Ruin" Trilogy
Publisher: Bad Apple Books
Published: 2020
Place of publication: United State
ISBN-13: 9781733514002
Copyright date: 2020
Description: After meeting Ezra, a secretive recluse whose once-perfect face was destroyed in an accident he won’t talk about, Ruby discovers an ancient pueblo ruin behind her house and finds herself teetering between love, mystery, monsters, and other worlds.

Set against a Northern New Mexico backdrop, Between Wild and Ruin is a young adult coming of age story that captures the wild and whimsical pulse of New Mexico through the eyes of teens Ruby Brooks, Angel Ruiz, and Ezra Lucero. The first book in the Wild and Ruin series, Between Wild and Ruin explores the time-tested credo ‘never judge a book by its cover’ through a paranormal lens, weaving Puebloan and Hispanic folklore and Southwest cultural narratives into tightly written, high-concept fiction ‘brimming with mystery, intrigue,’ and as Kirkus Reviews puts it, an “intriguing historical drama and an over-the top quadrangle romance.”
Notes: *2020 Reader's Choice Gold Medal - Young Adult Fiction Folklore/Mythology
*2020 National Press Women's First Place Award - Young Adult Fiction
*2020 New Mexico Press Women's First Place Award - Young Adult Fiction
*2020 Southwest and New Mexico First Place Design and Production Award - Young Adult Fiction