A week ago, seventeen-year-old Lela Santos{8217}s best friend, Nadia, killed herself. Today, thanks to a farewell ritual gone awry, Lela is standing in paradise, looking upon a vast gated city in the distance {8211} hell. No one willingly walks through the Suicide Gates, into a place smothered in darkness and infested with depraved creatures. But Lela isn{8217}t just anyone {8211} she{8217}s determined to save her best friend{8217}s soul, even if it means sacrificing her eternal afterlife. As Lela struggles to find Nadia, she{8217}s captured by the Guards, enormous, not-quite-human creatures that patrol the dark city{8217}s endless streets. Their all-too human leader, Malachi, is unlike them in every way except one: his deadly efficiency. When he meets Lela, Malachi forms his own plan: get her out of the city, even if it means she must leave Nadia behind. Malachi knows something Lela doesn{8217}t {8211} the dark city isn{8217}t the worst place Lela could end up, and he will stop at nothing to keep her from that fate.
Series:
Guards of the Shadowlands ; bk. 1. Fine, Sarah. Guards of the Shadowlands ; bk. 1.
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