When the Rain Came: Volume 1

When the Rain Came: Volume 1 - Paperback

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When the Rain Came: Volume 1 - Paperback

When the Rain Came: Volume 1 - Paperback

by Matthew Eicheldinger
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Book Overview

by Matthew Eicheldinger (Author)

The rain never stops. The world is drowning. Survival is everything. When the Rain Came is the first YA book in an all-new, action-packed dystopian adventure series by New York Times bestselling author Matt Eicheldinger.

A #8 Publishers Weekly Bestseller!

"If we stay here, if we keep wandering without a real plan, we won't last. Maybe The Hill is dangerous. But maybe it's not. It's the only plan we have."

Seventeen-year-old Aurora knows how to survive. Life in the foster system has taught her how to stay quiet, stay smart, and stay ready. But nothing could prepare her for this: a never-ending storm that swallows cities, drowns forests, and turns the world into a flooded wasteland.

Trapped in a collapsing house with her strict prepper foster parents, Aurora is forced to live by their rules just to stay alive. Until the day they disappear without a trace.

Alone. Abandoned. And running out of time.

All Aurora has is a waterlogged scrap of paper and a name: "The Hill."

With looters closing in and the floodwaters rising higher each day, she's left with one impossible choice--stay and wait for the storm to take her, or risk everything on a journey through the drowned remains of the world, to a find a place that may or not exist.

It's forward or nothing.

With echoes of Life As We Knew It, The Last of Us, and Hatchet, Aurora's story is a gripping, emotionally resonant survival story about resilience, found family, and one girl's fight to reclaim her future in a drowning world.

Author Biography

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Matt Eicheldinger wasn't always a writer. He spent most of his childhood playing soccer, reading comics, and trying his best to stay out of trouble. Matt lives in Bloomington, Minnesota with his wife and two children, and tries to create new adventures with them whenever possible. When he's not writing, you can find him telling students stories in the classroom or trail running along the Minnesota River Bottoms.

Number of Pages: 320
Dimensions: 1 x 7.9 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: March 17, 2026
ISBN9798881605131
Author Matthew Eicheldinger
PublisherAndrews McMeel Publishing
GenreYoung adult
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages320
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults and Adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Young Adult Action & Adventure Young Adult Dystopian Young Adult Fiction Young Adult Science Fiction Young Adults

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Matt Eicheldinger is a middle school teacher, author, public speaker, and storyteller. His stories on social media have amassed more than 50 million views as he takes viewers through hundreds of memories he has collected over the years, many of which are from his teaching career. But these are not just stories for teachers. Through his reflections and insights, Eicheldinger shows us there is always a greater message within a story, we just need to be ready to see it.

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