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The Kind
Paperback
Series: Recoverist Quartet, Book 1
Publisher Price: $12.99
ISBN13: 9780995656406
Publisher: Jule Owen
Published: Nov 30 2017
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Who is the Lamplighter?
Friendless exile.
Champion of the non Grata.
A mystery to herself.
It is 2472. The British Isles have been transformed by climate change into a desert archipelago. The wealthy and privileged have retreated to high-tech walled cities. Those beyond the walls are known as the Non-Grata. They live a precarious, hand-to-mouth existence, surviving on the charity of the cities. In return, these non-people must pay a Quota, a tax paid in human life. Specifically, they give the rich something their money cannot buy: children.
Isobel Twelvetrees has been put outside the walls of her city and left to die in the lethal heat for a crime she cannot remember committing. She was saved by someone or something, but when she wakes, the only companion she has is a dog with odd coloured eyes. When she learns the terrible truth about the plight of the Non Grata, she turns into a new kind of warrior. As she crosses continents with the threadbare armies of the Non Grata, in a deadly race against time to destroy the Quota and right historic wrongs, she starts to uncover the truth about herself and what she left behind.
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