Download e-book for iPad: Defiant: Towers Trilogy Book Two by Karina Sumner-Smith

Once, Xhea's desires have been easy: sufficient to devour, protection within the underground, and the hit of brilliant check to remodel her gray-cast international into colour. yet within the aftermath of her rescue of the Radiant ghost Shai, she realizes the lifestyles she had recognized is long past forever.

In the 2 months seeing that her fall from town, Xhea has hidden in skyscraper Edren, sheltered and trying to heal. yet quickly even she needs to face the troubling fact that she may possibly by no means stroll back. Shai, ever trustworthy, has stayed through her side--but the ghost's very presence has despatched untold fortunes into Edren's coffers and dangerously unbalanced the reduce City's political balance.

War is brewing. past Edren's partitions, the opposite skyscrapers have heard inform of the Radiant ghost and the facility she holds; rumors, too, converse of the woman who sees ghosts who should be the most important to controlling that energy. quickly, assassins stalk the skyscrapers' darkened corridors whereas armies assemble within the streets. yet Shai's magic isn't the in basic terms prize--nor the single energy which could swap every little thing. finally, Xhea starts off to profit of her unusual darkish magic, and why even whispers of its presence are sufficient to make the decrease urban elite tremble in fear.

Together, Xhea and Shai can have the ability to prevent a war--or develop into a weapon nice adequate to carry town to its knees. that's, if the magic does not smash them first.

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