* ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR *
'Sharply focused and written' - Reactor
'Compact, powerful, and devastating' - Strange Horizons
'An author who is clearly just getting warmed up' - The Full Lid
'A smart, disturbing delight of a book' - Run Along the Shelves
HOPE HAS A PRICE
Nick Prasad has always enjoyed a quiet life in the shadow of his best friend, child prodigy and technological genius Joanna 'Johnny' Chambers. But all that is about to end.
When Johnny invents a clean reactor that could eliminate fossil fuels and change the world, she awakens primal, evil Ancient Ones set on subjugating humanity.
From the oldest library in the world to the ruins of Nineveh, hunted at every turn, they will need to trust each other completely to survive...
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Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author whose work spans novels, novellas, short fiction, and criticism.Her fiction has earned recognition from the Hugo, Locus, British Fantasy, British Science Fiction, and Crawford awards, and she has served as Writer-in-Residence at the Edmonton Public Library.