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Twenty years after a devastating May Day earthquake shattered the coast from Alaska to California, Lucie Bowen left Marrow Island with her mother, following her father's disappearance in an explosion at the island’s oil refinery. The catastrophe had seemed to render the island uninhabitable. Years later, a mysterious colony has emerged, resurrecting life from the island’s scarred soil. As a dedicated journalist, Lucie is drawn back to Marrow Island to investigate the colony’s origins and the true price of its rebirth. Balancing the secrets of a secret society and the lingering trauma of the quake, she must decide whether the truth is worth the personal cost.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Fantasy/Dark Fantasy
Authors: Alexis M. Smith
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