Kirjahaku

A thousand years from now, in a broken world, there is a girl called Leitha. Struggling for survival in a workhouse school, she is unaware of momentous events unfolding around her. Until the rebellion begins. With Takeshi, the lost boy, she seeks refuge from the street-fighting in a strange shop, which they have both seen in dreams. Neither the clock shop nor its eccentric old proprietor, the Watchmaker, turn out to be quite what they seem. Nor is the white fox anyone's pet. Unable to return to their home town, Leitha and Takeshi leave by the back way. Guided by the fox through perilous tunnels, they reach a Railway which takes them to a refuge in another world. Their relief is short-lived.

A thousand years from now, in a broken world, there is a girl called Leitha. Struggling for survival in a workhouse school, she is unaware of momentous events unfolding around her. Until the rebellion begins. With Takeshi, the lost boy, she seeks refuge from the street-fighting in a strange shop, which they have both seen in dreams. Neither the clock shop nor its eccentric old proprietor, the Watchmaker, turn out to be quite what they seem. Nor is the white fox anyone's pet. Unable to return to their home town, Leitha and Takeshi leave by the back way. Guided by the fox through perilous tunnels, they reach a Railway which takes them to a refuge in another world. Their relief is short-lived.

Ten years after the Shattering cast her adrift, Leitha has become a warrior mercenary with the Plains People. An unusual contract goes badly wrong, and she is confronted with a Gateway portal. She must go through. Must return the artefacts in her care, which she has been told will restore the Otherlands. As Leitha struggles alone through a changed landscape, her friends and fellow warriors are pitched into a desperate battle. The peaceful folk of the Sacred Forest are being attacked by land-hungry invaders Yet is it only land they seek? As more people from Leitha's past enter the game, another agenda is revealed. The price of failure rises.

Ten years after the Shattering cast her adrift, Leitha has become a warrior mercenary with the Plains People. An unusual contract goes badly wrong, and she is confronted with a Gateway portal. She must go through. Must return the artefacts in her care, which she has been told will restore the Otherlands. As Leitha struggles alone through a changed landscape, her friends and fellow warriors are pitched into a desperate battle. The peaceful folk of the Sacred Forest are being attacked by land-hungry invaders Yet is it only land they seek? As more people from Leitha's past enter the game, another agenda is revealed. The price of failure rises.