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OverviewMELBOURNE, 1880. A booming colonial metropolis built on gold, polished with silk, and choked by the soot of its own roaring engine. To the aristocracy, it is a paradise of progress. To the ghosts of the Low End, it is a furnace that consumes the forgotten. Flynn is one of those ghosts. A street-sharp thief who survives by calculating the lethal friction of the back-alleys, he knows how to disappear-until a high-stakes gamble offers him a passport into the ivory towers of the elite. Then he meets Philomena. An artist who looks at the world with the same sharp, uncompromising eye as Flynn. Their collision isn't a polite parlor romance; it is a visceral, intoxicating shock of recognition between two survivalists who see right through each other's masks. In a city built on grand deceptions, she becomes his only truth-and his greatest vulnerability. But machines have no mercy, and masks have a habit of slipping. When Flynn's clever social heist triggers a lethal web of blackmail and a sudden, stomach-churning horror, the game turns into a breathless, blood-soaked race through the city's dark underbelly. Hunted by a ruthless underworld puppet-master, Flynn must decide how much of his own humanity he is willing to burn to save the woman who truly sees him. Because in a town where the rich play at being gods, a nobody with a stolen blade and a desperate love is the most dangerous mechanism of all. Full Product DetailsAuthor: J HawthornPublisher: New Leaf Books Imprint: New Leaf Books Volume: 1 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.172kg ISBN: 9798235122024Pages: 142 Publication Date: 29 May 2026 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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