The Good Luck Girls

In the country of Arketta, girls sold as children to a welcome house are called Good Luck Girls. The name is a cruel joke. Each one carries cursed markings and a life she never chose.

Five of them live together: Aster, the protector, Violet, the favorite, Tansy, the medic, Mallow, the fighter, and Clementine, the catalyst. When Clementine accidentally kills a man, staying put is no longer safe, and the girls run.

Their flight is a hard road toward freedom, justice and revenge, all of which the country would rather deny them. Arketta's most vicious and powerful forces hunt them, some human and some not. Their one hope is a bedtime story handed down from one Good Luck Girl to another, a tale that only the youngest or the most desperate would believe.

This is a young adult fantasy adventure with a Western flavor, told as a pursuit across a hostile land. The tone is harrowing, with danger close behind the girls throughout, and the stakes are survival for all five.