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Xhea has no magic. Born without the power that everyone else takes for granted, Xhea is an outcastno way to earn a living, buy food, or change the life that fate has dealt her. Yet she has a unique talent: the ability to see ghosts and the tethers that bind them to the living world, which she uses to scratch out a bare existence in the ruins beneath the City’s floating Towers.
When a rich City man comes to her with a young woman’s ghost tethered to his chest, Xhea has no idea that this ghos...
When a rich City man comes to her with a young woman’s ghost tethered to his chest, Xhea has no idea that this ghos...
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