The Touchstone Trilogy
On her last day of high school, Cassandra Devlin walked out of exams and into
a forest. 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.
The sprawl of abandoned blockish buildings Cass discovers offers her only more
puzzles. 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. 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. Struggling with an unfamiliar language and culture, she must
adapt to virtual classrooms, friends who...
Number of pages: 1151
Reading time: 19 h. 11 min.
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