
The two are captured by a couple, Rooster Pinch and Miz Pinch, who force Saba to fight in the Colosseum for a man known as the Cage Master.

The novel revolves around Saba's quest to find and rescue her brother, with whom she has a close relationship. Half a year after Saba and Lugh turned eighteen, four cloaked horsemen show up, kill the father, and kidnap Lugh. Saba lives with her father (her mother is dead), twin brother Lugh, and younger sister Emmi in a wasteland, Silverlake, where laws do not exist. Internet Speculative Fiction Database tags the books as post-apocalyptic science fiction for young adults. Raging Star concluded the series in June 2014. The first sequel Rebel Heart followed in 2012.

It was Young's first book and it inaugurated a trilogy under the series title Dust Lands. Blood Red Road is a dystopian novel by Moira Young, published in June 2011 by Marion Lloyd Books in the UK and Margaret K.
