Cloudchaser
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Last published Wed, Oct 29, 2014
Gigas: a fabled colossus, a hybrid between nature and steam technology. As humankind, exiled to the skies for its insolence, struggles to maintain a crumbling airborne society, a chain of life-changing events will force young Talulah Birch to seek out a paradise that may not even exist. She will face many challenges and lose everything she loves, but will her efforts be in vain?
Join our young heroine on her riveting journey full of tumbling skycities, cutthroat air pirates, steam contraptions and ancient giants in her ultimate fight to claim back everything she never thought she would lose.
Earth and sky alike will quake by her hand. She is Cloudchaser.
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