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Petrified City
2016
First Published
3.91
Average Rating
327
Number of Pages

Part of Series

Welcome to Petrified City, where the dead don’t stay in the ground. Ten years ago, an accident at the city chemical plant leaked toxins into the soil of the historic Brookwood Hill Cemetery. From the poisoned ground emerged the wraith – ghosts of the long dead who gorge on the energy sucked from the city’s dwindling population. Desperate to contain the threat, the government enclosed the city in a giant dome, trapping the wraith and the residents inside. Now, there’s almost nothing left. Sydney Cale – a thief with a strange and secret power – attempts to escape from the city’s jailers, only to find herself facing off against the wraith. She teams up with Alain, a raven shapeshifter who is a member of the Order of the Reapers, a powerful force who work to banish the wraith back to the underworld. Alain agrees to protect Sydney and her friend Diana in exchange for her help. She must enter the Citadel – the wraith compound in the center of the city – and steal back his kidnapped daughter. But what Sydney finds inside the Citadel will change everything. The wraith are evolving, drawing energy from the decaying city itself. Soon, they will be powerful enough to break free of the dome. Sydney and Alain must stop the wraith before they escape and infect the world, even if that means dooming themselves, and everyone they love, to petrifying inside the dying city. Described by reviewers as "a masterpiece of dystopian fantasy" and "edge-of-your-seat action", Petrified City is the first in a new urban fantasy series by New York Times bestselling author S C Green and international bestselling author Lindsey R Loucks. Packed with action, passion, and retribution, this novel will be impossible to put down!

Avg Rating
3.91
Number of Ratings
67
5 STARS
45%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
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Author

S.C. Green
S.C. Green
Author · 5 books

S C Green lives in an off-grid house on a slice of rural paradise near Auckland, New Zealand, with her cantankerous drummer husband, their two cats, and their medieval sword collection. She writes dark, dystopian fantasy featuring heavy historical elements. Her latest novel, The Sunken, explores an alternative Georgian London where dinosaurs still survive. The second book in the series, The Gauge War, is due out early 2015. She also writes humorous fantasy under the name Steff Metal. She writes about metal music, her books, living off-grid, and her adventures with home-brewing on her blog www.steffmetal.com. Stay up to date with her books by signing up to her newsletter at http://steffmetal.com/subscribe, or like her Facebook page at http://facebook.com/steffmetal.

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