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Blood of the Mantis

by Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2009

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Driven by the ghosts of the Darakyon, Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh-town of Jerez, but he has only days before the magical box is lost to him forever.

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long · 429 pages

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