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Years after a peace‑seeking gesture unleashed a devastating plague, San Francisco is left scarred yet alive. In this haunting, dream‑filled city, survivors cling to memory and hope. Teenagers Jax and Danny‑Boy take up the fight for freedom, wielding art and magic as their only weapons against a power‑hungry army threatening the city’s fragile recovery.
First publish date: 1989
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Pat Murphy
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