Wake of Vultures

core novel 2015 The Shadow

Record

First published	2015
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	3.88 (5,208 ratings, collected 2026-08-26)
Page count	342
First-edition ISBN	9780316264297
Internal chronology	1

Synopsis

Nettie Lonesome, a biracial young woman disguised as a boy and worked half to death by the couple who took her in on the Texas frontier, discovers she can see monsters hidden among ordinary people after a chance encounter with a dying stranger awakens supernatural senses she never knew she had. The revelation upends the hard, narrow life she has known, setting her on a path away from the household that has mistreated her and toward a wider, wilder world she is only beginning to understand. Alongside new companions who share her ability to see past ordinary appearances, she sets out across a rough, monster-haunted American West to make sense of her strange new gifts and to decide, for the first time, who she actually wants to become.

Where it sits

• Universe: The Shadow
• Series: The Shadow core; position 1 of 4 in the series' recorded order
• Author: Lila Bowen

Notes

• From the series record (The Shadow): A completed four-book weird-western dark fantasy following Nettie Lonesome/Rhett Walker, a mixed-race, gender-fluid monster hunter in an alternate 1870s Texas populated by vampires, shifters, and figures from indigenous and frontier folklore.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.

• Reading order, within the series The Shadow: position 1 of 4: next Conspiracy of Ravens (2016)

Sources

• Reader rating platform
• Black Gate
• https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lila-bowen/wake-of-vultures/9780316264297/
• Wikipedia: Hannah Kaner

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