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Escape from the Underworld

Escape from the Underworld

Mapp, Bailey

Paperback

Young Adult Fiction

ISBN13: 9798273000056
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 4 2025
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the smoldering shadow of the Great Chicago Fire, where ashes replaced a once glittering empire, fourteen-year-old Jeremy O'Reilly uncovers a blaze far deadlier than flames: a lie at the heart of his life. Ten years on, in 1881, the city's North Side gleams with rebuilt mansions and whispered fortunes-but Jeremy's world is a powder keg of deceit. Orphaned in spirit if not in name, he chafes under parents who peddle forged relics of the inferno to wide-eyed tourists, their South Side cunning ill-hidden behind silk and silver. The more he digs into fragmented memories of that fateful night-screams in the smoke, a stranger's desperate embrace-the more a chilling certainty haunts him: these swindlers aren't his blood kin. Armed with street smarts, a pilfered map of the city's underbelly, and a hunger that could torch his fragile future, Jeremy vows to unearth his true origins. But in a Chicago where secrets burn brighter than gaslights, the truth might consume him whole. What if the fire didn't just destroy his past... it stole it?

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