Threads That Bind

Fairyloot edition, 345 pages

English language

Published by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-241-65143-8
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In the City of Alante, the descendants of the Greek gods live alongside mortals.

Io is moira-born, descended from the Fates. She can see threads: shimmering silver lines connecting every person. When a relationship is formed, a new thread appears. When a person's life-thread is cut, it's their time to die. Io uses her gifts as a private investigator, trying to make ends meet in a world which treats other-born people like her with suspicion and prejudice.

Then Io witnesses a murder - but this is no ordinary murder. Io can see that the killer's life-thread is severed. They should be long dead.

More complicated still, there is another witness: Edei, a member of the violent Rossi mob who rule Alante. And what Io can see immediately, although Edei cannot, is that there is a bright silver fate-thread connecting them. This boy is her destiny.

Io and Edei are thrown …

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