Printed Book
Foundling
Growing up at Madam Opera's Estimable Marine Society for Foundling Boys and Girls, Rossamund Bookchild - a boy with an unfortunate name - has led a life sheltered from the dangers of the world. But this all changes the day the man with the strange red-and-pale-blue eyes recruits him into the service of the Emperor. Rossamund has been drafted into the ranks of the Half Continent's "Lamplighters" soldier who protect the empire's roads from all evil. Now Rossamund must begin the journey of his life, travelling the Half Continent, a world full of people who can be as predatory as any monster he can imagine.And when he falls in with the mysterious and talented Europe, who can call lighting down from the sky, he learns that some people can truly be lethal.
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