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"An array of other-worldly ghastly beings make this a wonderfully entertaining story... " Publishers Weekly reviewer, BookLife
One of five semifinalists for the YA BookLife Prize.
New York, 1895 (Victorian, Steampunk, Fantasy Adventure)
A bloody ghost is haunting Brooklyn, disrupting travel and terrorizing factory workers. It seems like a routine call for Genie and Hans, rookie reapers in a ghost-hunting guild, but the job is far more dangerous than they realize.
While exploring a dank tunnel, Genie's sparkwork is damaged -- a complicated web of tethers woven through her muscles, tissue, and bones that provide superhuman speed and strength. Hans, who also has the implants, knows that they can only be repaired in Chinatown, and they have to get there now before the commander at the guild finds out.
In a dimly lit shop smelling of herbs and spices, elderly Dr. Soon restores Genie to full strength. But as she and Hans hurry away through cramped, winding streets, they are stopped. The leader of the Dragonfly Brotherhood makes an offer they cannot refuse -- a rare vial of demon essence that will help them subdue the ghost they want -- in exchange for a fight-to-submission (or death, whichever comes first) with a battle-clanker prototype.
The Mantis is the biggest clanker Genie and Hans have ever seen in a combat arena. It rises on metal legs, rattling as steam pours from its pipe antennae. Two rows of tesla cells crackle madly along its carapace while not one but two pilots wrestle with controls. An announcer screams into his speaking trumpet, "FIGHT!" The crowd howls for blood. Will Genie and Hans live long enough to hunt the ghost they seek?
Read Sample to taste more supernatural thrills and chills in this award-nominated story.
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