Short Description

Eighteen-year-old Kateiko is back in the second installment of the Call of the Rift series. As the harshest winter in memory brews, and famine looms, Kateiko must work to save her people before the air spirit Suriel tears open the world.

Sales and Market Bullets

• The Call of the Rift: Veil is book two in a five-book series, for readers of Victoria Aveyard’s Red Queen series.


• “Waller puts a great deal of thought into her worldbuilding . . . A mature choice for those who love high fantasy and magical realism.” — School Library Journal


• The Call of the Rift: Veil is a survival story with an Indigenous protagonist that will appeal to readers of Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves.

Audience

• 14+ high fantasy and historical fantasy readers (with crossover into adult fantasy readers)


• Librarians and teachers


• Readers of The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline and The Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard

Jae Waller grew up in Prince George, a lumber town in northern British Columbia. She has a joint BFA in creative writing and fine art from the University of Northern British Columbia and Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Now living in Melbourne, Australia, she works as a novelist and freelance artist.

“Fans will be reengaged by Waller’s war-torn worldbuilding and original characterization . . . Adventurous, heartbreaking, and undoubtably open-ended.” — Kirkus Reviews

“In Veil, Jae Waller has once again created a rich, deep, magical, and moody atmosphere where whispers of British Columbia’s deep human history seep through.” — The Ormsby Review

“Well-written, Veil, a complicated tale, would be enjoyed by those readers interested in adventure with magic, shape-shifting (Kateiko can turn into a wolf) and warriors riding on large birds . . . Recommended.” — Canadian Review of Materials