New teen thriller 'Sisters in the Wind' finds drama in hidden identities

New teen thriller 'Sisters in the Wind' finds drama in hidden identities

Neda Ulaby

September 08, 2025 / 12:14 pm

At a moment when young adult literature is dominated by dystopias and romantasies, one bestselling author has dispensed with dragons and death matches. Who needs them, when you can suck readers into dramas about foster care, grave robbers, meth dealers or high-stakes, high-school hockey matches?

Author Angeline Boulley has written her third thriller for teenagers, Sisters in the Wind, which came out the first week in September.

All of her books have been set in Native American communities in northern Michigan, like the ones where Boulley's Ojibwe family has lived for generations.

Her new book features a heroine named Lily, a young woman on the run after a series of tr