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The Secret City

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The follow up to the mesmerizing The Secret Fire

Welcome to alchemy, where even the books will kill you

In St Wilfred’s College Oxford, home of alchemists, Taylor and Sacha are together and safe from the Dark practitioner’s demonic forces – for now.

But in just three weeks’ time Sacha will turn eighteen, and the ancient curse that made him invincible will finally kill him once and for all.

Only Taylor can save him. They just have to figure out how. With the help of their friends Louisa and Alastair, they must go back to where the curse was first cast: the medieval city of Carcassonne.

The journey is fraught with danger.

And the destination is their destiny.

Because this will be the battle of a thousand lifetimes, and Taylor and Sacha might change the world... if history doesn’t kill them first.

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The Alchemist Chronicles

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C. J. Daugherty

Before giving fiction a shot, C. J. Daugherty worked as a journalist for Reuters, and as a crime and investigative reporter for a number of newspapers in the US. These days she writes thrillers. Night School was her first novel. The Night School series has been translated into 21 languages.

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