Once Upon a Fever

The second astonishing novel for upper middle-grade readers by Angharad Walker, author of critically acclaimed "The Ash House". Since the world fell sick with fantastical illnesses, sisters Payton and Ani have grown up in a hospital. When Ani stumbles upon an imprisoned boy who turns everything he touches to gold, her world is turned upside down.

The sisters find themselves outside the hospital for the first time, a dark mystery unravelling around them … Payton wants to be a methic like her father, working on a cure for her mother's sleeping fever. Ani, however, thinks the remedy for all illness might be found in the green wilderness beyond the hospital walls.