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On New Year’s Eve a mysterious sickness spreads worldwide, causing the electrical grid to fail, governments to collapse, and more than half of the world’s population to die. In the resulting vacuum of order, ancient and powerful magic rises to take the place of science and technology. Amid the chaos lives Lana Bingham, a witch in a loft apartment who practices her craft with her lover, Max. The novel alternates between the glittering promise of good magic and the looming threat of a vast, malevolent force that can hide in plain sight or in forgotten depths beneath the river. As the shadow grows, Lana and Max must navigate a world where survival depends on both the old arts and the new.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Dystopian & Apocalyptic Fiction/Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Authors: Nora Roberts
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