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9781869506650
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A sweeping epic fantasy adventure, 'Nina of the Dark' tells the compelling story of a slave girl and a warrior queen, in a medieval world where humans battle for existence in fortified towns scattered through a fertile lowlands, dominated by the grim mountains of Backbone.
Beyond Backbone is a land of demons, flying dragons, witchers, ogres and goblins. Rescued at birth only to be doomed to a life of slavery, Nina has no idea she has been foretold by ancient prophets, and carries within her a key that will unlock an unlikely future.
In the shadow of a prophecy of a young woman with hair the colour of sunlight on snow, raven-haired Nina the foundling is suspected of witchcraft when she starts to experience sharp pain in her thumbs at adolescence, a sure sign of witchery and evil to those she serves.
When her village is attacked and Nina is made the scapegoat she is forced to flee for her life, beginning a classic journey of discovery and coming of age in a brutal and violent world where nothing is the way it seems and secrets and lies wait round every corner.
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