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Simon & Schuster
September 2012
On Sale: September 11, 2012
320 pages
ISBN: 1451664257
EAN: 9781451664256
Kindle: B0061QAYE4
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Fiction Family Life
In this hauntingly original debut novel about a young woman whose peculiar abilities help her infiltrate a mysterious secret society, Adam McOmber uses fantastical twists and dark turns to create a fast-paced, unforgettable story. Young Jane Silverlake lives with her father in a crumbling family estate on the edge of Hampstead Heath. Jane has a secretβan unexplainable gift that allows her to see the souls of man-made objectsβand this talent isolates her from the outside world. Her greatest joy is wandering the wild heath with her neighbors, Madeline and Nathan. But as the friends come of age, their idyll is shattered by the feelings both girls develop for Nathan, and by Nathanβs interest in a cult led by Ariston Day, a charismatic mystic popular with Londonβs elite. Day encourages his followers to explore dream manipulation with the goal of discovering a strange hidden world, a place he calls the Empyrean. A year later, Nathan has vanished, and the famed Inspector Vidocq arrives in London to untangle the events that led up to Nathanβs disappearance. As a sinister truth emerges, Jane realizes she must discover the origins of her talent, and use it to find Nathan herself, before itβs too late.
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