A City Without Birds
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Memories can't be trusted in Seranid. Feisty Terry Silver learns the hard way when she's forced to flee the utopian City of her childhood, charged with a crime she has no recollection of committing.
After the mysterious Professor Camus Remin whisks her into the Slums, she finds stolen memories, a people trampled by innovation, and a decades-old Resistance that embraces her like family.
In this country of half-truths and division, Terry faces more than her own mortality: resurfacing trauma, the looming threat of an all-out nuclear war, and the hopes of a people who call her the Phoenix that will herald the nation's rebirth.
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