The Chronicles of Deva: Prisoner of State
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After four years of civil war, The Isles has fought itself to a standstill. 'Peace at any price' comes the cry; yet the price is beyond reckoning. After the Armistice and the Disarmament comes partition. The Isles is split north from South.
No-one predicted what happened next. A weird forcefield gathers and the borderlands are cloaked in darkness.
Two people - each acting alone - decide to act. Felix Skryker reluctantly returns to The Isles. Xanthe Chance flees the prison island where she has lived all her life.
Yet Xanthe Chance is not just another girl: Prisoner of State, heir to a fabulous fortune, of a family of heretics and wastrels. Once in Deva she is led astray, and passes through the wrong door.
Will Felix Skryker, now Minister of State Security, the missing Prisoner of State? Can he keep her alive?
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