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Inkwell.
A seemingly normal town with seemingly average residents...except for the 50-foot wall severing the town in two. A geologist had identified the wall several years ago as obsidian, but upon closer inspection, it was declared to be an unknown element.
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Meet Primrose Clairemont, daughter of the King of Inkwell. Her life is full of sweets, fancy dresses, and just flat out money. Her parents, as the rulers, keep the citizens from crossing through the gate to the other side of the Inkwell Rift. She is calm and princess-like when her father is around, but relaxed around friends.
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Meet Hazel Anderson, intern at Inkwell Community Radio. Between balancing schoolwork and her social life, Hazel also has a slight problem: OCD. Oh, and of course the secret: she's involved in the rebellion, whose main goal is to find out whatever is on the other side of the nearly impenetrable wall.
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Meet Rowan Townhaus, whose parents disappeared over the wall when she was 9, never to be seen again. When she was taken in by a member of the royal workforce, she was given a job as a messenger for the king, running short distances and riding long ones. Of course, she never leaves the town. No one would ever be able to get past the rest of the wall, which stretches around the entirety of Inkwell.
Geoff and Naomi are dead, and they're depressed, but when Geoff's cat Bernie dies as well, they embark on a wild journey to find it in the underworld.
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When Geoff dies, alongside his girlfriend Naomi, they end up sharing an apartment in the Underworld as skeletons. But after a few years, Geoff starts suffering a mid-death crisis. What's the purpose of going through the motions as a skeleton if you can't really live? Then he gets word that his cat, Bernie, just died and he can collect him and bring him home! Geoff and Naomi hurry to get Bernie only to discover that, due to a clerical error, their cat has been lost. With the hunt for Bernie giving new purpose to Geoff's un-life, he and Naomi begin a quest to get back their cat. Battling skeleton pirates, climbing the sky ladder and facing off against the villain who took Bernie, Geoff is determined to find his purpose - or die a second time trying!
[[2018 Wattys Winner - The Originals]]
[[word count: 30,000-40,000 words]]