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Talos Press
January 2016
On Sale: January 12, 2016
352 pages
ISBN: 1940456355
EAN: 9781940456355
Kindle: B019WQU7XW
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Science Fiction
“Skinner was what servs called each other. It was
because
they were fake, their skins a disguise…”
Every
year when the deep cold of winter sets in, unbeknownst to
humanity, dangerous visitors arrive from another world.
Disguised as humans, the Nafikh move among us in secret,
hungry for tastes of this existence. Their fickle,
often-violent needs must be accommodated at all times, and
the price of keeping them satisfied is paid most heavily by
servs.
Created by the Nafikh to attend their every
whim, servs are physically indistinguishable from humans
but
for the Source, the painful, white-hot energy that both
animates and enslaves them. Destined to live in pain,
unable
to escape their bondage, servs dwell in a bleak underworld
where life is brutal and short.
Lucy is a serv who
arrived as a baby and by chance was adopted by humans.
She’s
an outcast among outcasts, struggling to find a place where
she truly belongs. For years she has been walking a
tightrope, balancing between the horrors of her serv
existence and the ordinary life she desperately longs to
maintain; her human family unaware of her darkest
secrets.
But when the body of a serv child turns up
and Lucy is implicated in the gruesome death, the worlds
she’s tried so hard to keep separate collide. Hounded by
the
police, turned upon by the servs who once held her dear,
she
must protect her family and the life she’s made for
herself.
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