Anastasia Spinet
QuickSilver (NEW)
Kartoniert, 376 Seiten, in englischer Sprache, 26,00 EUR
Paperback, 376 pages, 26,00 EUR
Cover by Jolly
Following a catastrophic global war, humanity has been reduced to a handful of densely populated cities dispersed among vast swaths of arid wasteland. Great Hill City, a towering metropolis of silver skyscrapers and technological prowess, crouches upon the rocky Northeastern coast of what was once the United States, dazzling in its bustling modernity and safety amidst a ravaged world. That is, of course, only if one obeys Great Hill's draconian laws. The price of safety in Great Hill's metallic arms comes at the lofty cost of one's own mental and physical freedom.
Tammy Anker, a human-feline hybrid, works as a Freerunner – a member of a secret society that shepherds hybrids and their sympathizers out of Great Hill and off to kinder cities and towards kinder futures. However, Tammy's heart grows weary of the danger, stress, and fear associated with years of Freerunning, and now she plans to leave the job behind forever. That is, until she meets Jet, a jackal hybrid with fragmented memories and no home to call his own. Spurred by compassion, Tammy takes him in as her final Freerunning gig. With his easy-going personality and willingness to cooperate, she assumes getting him out of Great Hill will be the easiest job she's ever had. However, strange tidings seem to follow Jet everywhere he goes, and together they find themselves tangled up in a plot more terrifying than anything either of them could have ever imagined.