As a secret city where desperate people go to disappear, Rockton is the perfect crucible to explore what happens when we are forced to confront the difficult truths about ourselves. Puckrin adds, “The setting is uniquely Canadian, but the issues are universal - the idea that you can hide from everything except who you really are. As she soon discovers, the town is in desperate need of a police detective, because the supposedly safe paradise has just had its first-ever murder.Īppleyard says the stories offer a “timely investigative crime drama with a unique setting and formidable female lead that will resonate with audiences worldwide.” Before Casey was a cop, she killed a man. Homicide detective Casey Duncan takes refuge in Rockton to help her best friend escape a brutal ex-husband, but she also has something to hide. Who you are and what brought you to Rockton defines how you see it. It’s also an extreme adventure and a penal colony that takes in those seeking refuge from their lives. The second book in the stunning Darkest Powers trilogy, The Awakening is a powerful and gripping story from bestselling author Kelley Armstrong.Rockton is a Utopian commune and a survivalist outpost. Together they have a chance for freedom - but can Chloe trust her new friends? Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read A Darkness Absolute: A Rockton Novel. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Now Chloe is running for her life with three other supernatural teenagers - a charming sorcerer, a troubled werewolf and a temperamental young witch. A Darkness Absolute: A Rockton Novel - Ebook written by Kelley Armstrong. Even worse, her growing powers have made her a threat to the surviving members of the Edison Group, who have decided it's time to end their experiment - permanently. Genetically altered at birth by a sinister group of scientists known as the Edison Group, Chloe is an aberration - a powerful necromancer who can see ghosts and even raise the dead, often with terrifying consequences.
Then she learned the shocking truth - she is a walking science experiment. 'Armstrong has some fun toying with supernatural teen thriller conventions, and the taut pacing should please fans of the exploding genre.' - BooklistĬhloe Saunders used to be a normal teenage girl - or so she thought. Will exhilarate even readers new to the series.' - Kirkus, starred review New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author and master of thrills Kelley Armstrong returns to Rockton for more page-turning suspense, following her 1 national bestseller, City of the Lost. But the trouble is people also disappear from Rockton. ' hits the ground running, leaving readers tripping, stumbling and racing to keep up. People disappear to Rockton so no-one can find them.
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