Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum Binding:Paperback A chef escapes her dying

A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles

But when a vengeful spirit abducts his younger sister

the mysterious man confesses what Isaiah has begun to suspect: the crew of The Merciful has fallen into a cycle of punishment for their greed and destruction

Aja Barber

Kidan must infiltrate the elite Uxlay University--where students study to ensure peaceful coexistence between humans and vampires and inherit their family legacies

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