"Dark and ruthlessly compelling, Alison Wisdom’s The Burning Season asks big questions about religion, community, and love in all its various—and twisted—forms while also being a hell of a good read. You’ll be thinking about Dawes, Texas long after you finish the last page."
   — Rachel Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Upstairs Wife and Reckless Girls

“Where does faith end and fanaticism begin? The Burning Season centers this provocative question inside a fiery landscape where men conjure holy visions and women serve as the vessels of God. In a stark and haunting tale, Alison Wisdom has written her way to the core of belief and submission, finally arriving at a deeply human prayer to be free."
   — Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch

“This emotionally nuanced, eerily beautiful portrait of a lost woman and a troubled marriage evokes the gothic tradition of Bronte and DuMaurier while remaining utterly fresh and contemporary. The Burning Season shines with an uncanny apocalyptic light.”
   — Dan Chaon, author of Sleepwalk

“Where is the pleasure and the power in submission and subjugation? Where’s the danger, the loss, the risk? In Alison Wisdom’s beautifully atmospheric The Burning Season, these questions are both complicated and upended through the power of its characters through the richness and complexity of its world."
   — Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want and Hold Still

“Haunting and thought-provoking, The Burning Season interrogates how power corrupts people within belief systems. With captivating prose and authentic characters, Alison Wisdom takes readers on a journey that is alternately unsettling and profound, but that never allows you to look away."
   — Monica West, author of Revival Season

“We’ve all seen photos of women in fringe religious sects, and we’ve wondered who would willingly choose that life. The Burning Season shows us, with both empathy and eviscerating insight, that those women could easily be us. Wisdom spools out two taut threads: the tension of a cult, with misogyny and violence barely buried beneath the surface, and the beauty of submitting to God, to community, and to the people we love. Both a chilling thriller and a lyrical marvel, this novel dug under my skin and changed how I looked at the world."
   — Stacey Swann, author of Olympus, Texas