Tristan and Dylan have escaped death and conquered destiny. Finally, there is nothing to stop them from being together.
But every action has a consequence, and their escape to the real world has caused an imbalance in the afterlife. It's owed two souls - and it wants them back.
When the world of the dead claims Dylan's parents to restore the balance, Dylan and Tristan are offered a terrible bargain: stay together and condemn innocent souls to death, or return to the wasteland to take their place and face separation. Forever.
With no place left for them in the world of the living or the dead, will Dylan and Tristan make a heartrending sacrifice?
The stunning final instalment of Dylan and Tristan's epic love story, Outcasts is the much-anticipated follow-up to the award-winning Ferryman, and heart-pounding sequel Trespassers.
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(@DiscoverKelpies, 21 March 2019, 272 pages, e-book, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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This is a corker of an end to what has been a brilliant series. Dylan and Tristan have closed the holes and killed the wraiths so they should be able to be together forever having kept their end of the bargain they made with the sinister Inquisitor. But things are never that simple in the world of the Ferrymen. After a series of violent attacks which don't seem to be the work of wraiths but nevertheless indicate something from the wasteland is responsible they discover their actions have shifted the balance between life and death. The wasteland has changed. The wraiths have changed. And there is something monstrous with tentacles at the bottom of the lake, the final crossing point for souls to reach the Afterlife. Dylan pays the price when the Inquisitor takes the souls of her parents to reset the balance. She agrees to trade her and Tristan's soul for theirs. The Inquisitor sends then back to the wasteland to find her parents. Susannah, Tristan's fellow ferryman has been given the task of transporting the souls of both of Dylan's parents. This has never happened before so she knows something has changed but doesn't know what. I knew what I wanted to happen at the end. The author went in a different direction but completely satisfying. I cried like a baby.
