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In an alternate London where magical creatures are preserved in a museum, two teens find themselves caught in a web of intrigue, deception, and danger.

Vespa Nyx wants nothing more than to spend the rest of her life cataloging Unnatural creatures in her father’s museum, but as she gets... read more

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The Sphinx stares at me from her plinth.

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1-28

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  • Tinker: children whose laughter moved toys through the air or whose cries caused little rain clouds to form inside the City-dweller's lush townhouses before their talents be squelched by nullwards.
  • Elemental: trolls, kobolds, hobs
  • Unnaturals: Describe this term.
  • myth: dust that provided the city with heat and light
  • Refiners: engineers who kept the City Refinery running day and night
  • Thunderbusses: long guns that shot a blast of energy at an Elemental
  • Architect: The Architecs of Athena were an ancient fraternity devoted to the destruction of the Imperial order. Stories say they fought their enemies with dark magic.
  • Strix: a flesh-eating, owl-like creature, rumored to haunt the great rivers and caverns of the East
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  1. Tiffany Trent (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Country: USA
Publication Date: 14 August 2012
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Page Count: 320

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