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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Ready your blade. Defeat the undead. Gideon the Ninth meets the Game of Thrones White Walkers in this dark young adult fantasy about a disgraced ghost-fighting warrior who must journey into a haunted wasteland to rescue a kidnapped prince. In the Dominions, the dead linger, violent and unpredictable, unless a bonesmith severs the ghost from its earthly remains. For bonesmith Wren, becoming a valkyr - a ghost-fighting warrior - is a chance to solidify her place in the noble House of Bone and impress her frequently absent father. But when sabotage causes Wren to fail her qualifying trial, she is banished to the Border Wall, the last line of defence against a wasteland called the Breach where the vicious dead roam unchecked. Determined to reclaim her family's respect, Wren gets her chance when a House of Gold prince is kidnapped and taken beyond the Wall. To prove she has what it takes to be a valkyr, Wren vows to cross the Breach and rescue the prince. But to do so, she's forced into an uneasy alliance with one of the kidnappers - a fierce ironsmith called Julian from the exiled House of Iron, the very people who caused the Breach in the first place...and the House of Bone's sworn enemy. As they travel, Wren and Julian spend as much time fighting each other as they do the undead, but when they discover there's more behind the kidnapping than either of them knew, they'll need to work together to combat the real danger: a dark alliance that is brewing between the living and the undead. 'Filled with magic, betrayal, and undead horrors' Jodi Meadows 'I've been dying for a YA novel with unique magic, and Bonesmith delivered it on a ghostly-green platter' Tricia Levenseller 'Packed with action and betrayal' Rebecca Schaeffer 'A dark fantasy thrillride' Amélie Wen Zhao

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Bonesmith

Reaping might provide peace, but the undead wanted to 

They were tethered to the earth the way they had been in life.

Wren herself had only done half the stupid things she'd done for the attention. She'd wanted to be caught, to be seen, to be talked about and remembered.

She'd always assumed any attention was better than no attention. Better for people to expect the worst than for them to expect nothing at all.

They were all linked by the soil, and she was tapping into that matrix.

A strange awkwardness descended. They were basically strangers, technically enemies, and hadn't spent more than a few scattered minutes together when they weren't fighting of running for their lives.

Since magic came from the earth, so did all life, and so that was where they were to return, giving their magic to future generations.

At least they insisted on bring their bodies with them.

He wanted to surrender. To let go. To unravel.

Leave it to her to find the gift of a used weapon the height of romance, but there it was.

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