The Death of Light: The Scolaris Chronicles · Book Two, A Dystopian Mystery
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*This audiobook has been auto-narrated by Google AI British male narrator Archie. Quill's voice by Google AI British female narrator Ava.*
A new adult dystopian mystery from Lou Collins, for readers of The Hunger Games and Divergent.
The sky is burning, and Scolaris is dying under it.
A second sun has risen over Scolaris. It scorches the gardens, blinds anyone who looks up, and casts a light so relentless that even nightfall can't dim it.
But the light isn't what's killing people. Across all five districts, a toxin drawn from Scolaris's most forbidden creature is claiming victims. Every one of them dies smiling.
The Protectorate sequesters itself for vote after vote that go nowhere, while its Head is missing with a diplomatic visitor still in the city. When the rumour that he's dead finally breaks, the chamber doesn't grieve. It starts jockeying for his chair.
Quill has already learned what it costs to survive this city. Now she has to protect the family she's built here, starting with the mentor she nearly lost once before, while Red, newly Chief of the City Guard, races to catch the killer before the Protectorate finishes covering for itself.
Someone in Scolaris is getting away with murder while the city looks the other way. Quill isn't ready to let it stay buried.
Book Two of The Scolaris Chronicles. A dystopian mystery about what a city will hide to keep calling itself safe.
Similar to books like: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Divergent by Veronica Roth, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.
Keywords: dystopian, new adult dystopian, secondary world mystery, political intrigue, serial poisoning mystery, drug conspiracy, power struggle, found family, disability representation, coming of age, price of freedom, power, politics, intrigue, cunning adversary, one of a kind heroine, slow burn, suspense, action-packed, mystery, crime fiction, page turner, clever original plot, long held secrets, heartache of loss, taken out of ordinary life
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About the author
Lou Collins writes stories about worlds that trade freedom for the illusion of order, and the people who start asking the questions they're not supposed to ask. The Scolaris Chronicles grew out of a lifelong love of imagined worlds: His Dark Materials, the Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings. It also draws on a career practising law, which sharpened her eye for how systems fail the people inside them.
A wife and mother, she also writes the Chloe Essex cozy mysteries. When she isn't building walled cities or plotting a character's downfall, she can be found at the ballet, at the theatre, or waging a one-woman war against ironing.
Don't miss out! To learn more, find Lou online: loucollinsbooks.com or follow her in all the places.
