Disgraced government operative Colonel Chu is exiled to the flooded relic of New York City. Something called the Light has hit the streets like an epidemic, leavings its users strung out and disconnected from the mind-network humanity relies on. Chu has lost everything she cares about to the Light.
Burning Light
β Scribed by Rachel Starr Thomson
- Book ID
- 111024151
- Publisher
- Rachel Starr Thomson
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Series
- The Seventh World Trilogy #2
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780973959116
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
When they see beyond the skyWhen they know beyond the mindWhen they hear the song of the Burning Light:Take these Gifts of My Outstretched Hand,Weave them together.I shall come.After five hundred years of oppression, the Seventh World is beginning to wake to the realities of the unseen world behind the Veil. The rise of the Gifted heralds the return of the King of ancient daysβbut evil is also waking. Aware that their control is beginning to slip, the Order of the Spider sets out to convert the Gifted or destroy them.Among those caught in the conflict are Nicolas Fisher, a young Gypsy running from the past, and Maggie Sheffield, driven underground in the city of Pravik. Others also stand against the Blackness: the young chieftain Michael O'Roarke, the mysterious healer called Miracle, and the indomitable rebels of Pravik.As the world takes sides, their lives will play an integral roleβin the coming of light, or the triumph of darkness.Burning Light is the second book in The Seventh World Trilogy.
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