Struggling with an unfamiliar language and culture, she must adapt to virtual classrooms, friends who can teleport, and the ingrained attitude that strays are backward and slow. Whisked to a world as technologically advanced as the first was primitive, where nanotech computers are grown inside people's skulls, and few have any interest in venturing outside the enormous whitestone cities, Cass finds herself processed as a 'stray', a refugee displaced by the gates torn between worlds. Where are the people? What is the intoxicating mist which drifts off the buildings in the moonlight? And why does she feel like she's being watched? Increasingly unnerved, Cass is overjoyed at the arrival of the formidable Setari.

sh buildings Cass discovers offers her only more puzzles. Surrounded by the wrong sort of trees, and animals never featured in any nature documentary, Cass is only sure of one thing: alone, she will be lucky to survive. On her last day of high school, Cassandra Devlin walked out of exams and into a forest. Stray: Touchstone (Part 1) (Trade Paperback / Paperback) And who, exactly, is the monster? Read more ISBN But innocent lives are at stake, and no-one else seems willing to ask if what is necessary is the right thing to do. The last thing Kendall wants is to try to play conscience to someone who can swat her like a bug. All three of these things - monsters, Kellian, and an entirely overpowered mage - are about to land in Kendall Stockton's lap.

Worst of all, she is linked to a past that the Kellian would rather forget. Secretive and obscenely powerful, she knows entirely too much about a massive new threat to Tyrland's safety. faithfully they serve, or how true their sworn word, they are too different, too separate, to ever be entirely trusted. Tyrland has a solution in the Kellian: faster and stronger than humans, they are Tyrland's clawed, shadowy monster hunters.

The world has a problem with monsters: creeping through tears in the fabric of space, they feast on every unprotected human they can find. Stained Glass Monsters: Eferum Book 1 (Trade Paperback / Paperback)

Medair by Andrea K. Höst