Deadwood

When the last free city faces annihilation by an army of stone automatons, a teenage addict must step up as its unlikely savior.For a millenia, the desert city of Perlenstadt has withstood siege from an army of mindless stone-men called felschecs. It is perhaps the only city on the continent to have remained free of the felschec armies and their masters, owing to the fact that the sister-druids Ada and Duera built it specifically for this purpose.But nothing lasts forever. When a pirate is captured in a distant march, he offers information in exchange for his freedom. Information that allows the felschecs to finally break the stalemated siege.The druid elders of Perlenstadt rush to muster a group of volunteers to fight alongside them and their gelda, tree creatures made to grow in the form of humans. One of these volunteers is a young girl named Ferra, convinced to join as a last resort to save her family from a disaster of her own creation.The residents of Perlenstadt have one goal: find and kill the leader of the felschec army. But when they venture beyond their own walls, they discover that the world isn't nearly so black-and-white.Deadwood is an action-packed Young Adult Dark Fantasy, perfect for readers of the Nevernight series and Gideon the Ninth. Follow the inhabitants of Perlenstadt as they fight for survival against those who see little difference between humanity and the soulless automatons at their command.