386 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 2014

OCLC Number:
867765882

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Xhea, who has no magic but can see ghosts, struggles to survive in the ruins beneath the magical Towers until she is joined to the ghost of Shai, a Radiant whose magic creates power, and the two must flee both Shai's Tower and its enemies.

"Xhea has no magic. Born without the power that everyone else takes for granted, Xhea is an outcast--no way to earn a living, buy food, or change the life that fate has dealt her. Yet she has a unique talent: the ability to see ghosts and the tethers that bind them to the living world, which she uses to scratch out a bare existence in the ruins beneath the City's floating Towers. When a rich City man comes to her with a young woman's ghost tethered to his chest, Xhea has no idea that this ghost will change everything. The ghost, Shai, is a Radiant, …

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Subjects

  • Outcasts
  • Ghost stories
  • Magic
  • Fiction