![]() “That’s Fitz,” Sophie said, pointing to a dark-haired boy whose teal eyes flashed as he offered a smile that would put any movie star to shame. “Who are you?” her sister asked, backing away from the guys standing slightly behind Sophie. She’d almost forgotten they had an audience for the Most Stressful Family Reunion in the History of Family Reunions. “Not right now,” a crisply accented voice finished for her. Triggered memories tended to flash back in scattered bits and pieces, leaving lots of holes. “I know how confusing this must be,” Sophie told her. Amy Foster?”Īmy-Natalie-whatever Sophie was supposed to call her-groaned and pressed her fingers against her temples. “Wait.” Her sister mouthed the name a few more times, as if her lips were remembering the feel of it. Human minds were more open than elvin minds, and they broadcast everything like a radio station on full blast. And yet, here she was, raising a mental shield to block her sister’s chaotic thoughts as they pounded through her consciousness like stampeding mastodons. Sophie wasn’t supposed to know her family’s new names or where they lived-and she definitely hadn’t been allowed to visit them-to ensure that something like this never happened. “I don’t understand,” her sister whispered, rubbing her eyes like it would change what she was seeing. All it took was the right trigger and . . . And they’d been relocated to a new city and given new names, new jobs, even the fancy new Tudor-style house that Sophie now stood in, with its quaint windows and wood-paneled walls.īut erased memories were never truly gone. So her family’s minds had been “washed” by specially trained Telepaths, to make them forget that Sophie had ever been born. They’d planned to fake her death to cover her disappearance, but she’d begged to be erased instead, to spare her parents the grief of losing a child. Something she still didn’t fully understand.Īnd after years of feeling out of place-even among the family she loved-the elves finally showed Sophie the truth about her life and brought her to the Lost Cities. Ruling the earth from the shadows.īorn from humans-but not human-as part of a rebel group’s secret genetic experiment called Project Moonlark. Living across the globe in hidden glittering cities. Sure, they’d grown up together in the same house in San Diego, California, both believing they had the same parents-despite the fact that Sophie’s blond hair and brown eyes didn’t match her family of light-eyed brunettes.Ī world where elves were real creatures-and nothing like the silly stories that humans had invented about them. Technically, she wasn’t even her sister-at least not genetically. ![]() Her little sister shouldn’t remember her. The wide-eyed, trembling girl standing in front of her slowly nodded, and Sophie’s heart swelled even as it plummeted into the sour pit of her stomach. In this spectacular sixth book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Sophie must uncover the truth about the Lost Cities' insidious past, before it repeats itself and changes reality.The question slipped from Sophie’s lips before she could stop it, and the weighted words seemed to hit the floor of the messy bedroom with a thud. And with time running out, and mistakes catching up with them, Sophie and her allies must join forces in ways they never have before. The problems they're facing stretch deep into their history. But nothing can prepare them for what they discover. All paths lead to Nightfall-an ominous door to an even more ominous place-and Sophie and her friends strike a dangerous bargain to get there. Maybe even time for Sophie to trust her enemies. The Neverseen have had their victories-but the battle is far from over. But she knows one thing: she will not be defeated. A New York Times bestselling series A USA TODAY bestselling series A California Young Reader Medal-winning series Sophie and her friends face battles unlike anything they've seen before in this thrilling sixth book of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series.
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