Erin Dosmanos barely escapes a devastating firestorm, elemental hunter hounds snarling at her heels. She clutches a messenger bag that holds her family’s most valuable possession: a book in code with copper covers and aluminum leaves. Her family has been charged with its protection for generations. Now they are all dead, murdered, and she must somehow bring the book to safety.
Erin crosses a frontera and crashes into the world of Trevian Langtree.
In Langtree’s world, elemental creatures abound, technology is at the level of the mid-19th century, and people like Trevian scavenge in ruined cities that show evidence of high-rise buildings and cell phones. Here, magic is real. Here, copper feeds magic. The book is an object Trevian knows from his grandmother’s campfire stories; finding out it’s real changes his thinking of his own history.
Between them, they realize that both of their worlds are at risk of a terrifying invasion. While they struggle with linguistic and cultural differences, each must decide if they can trust the other. That fates of two worlds depends on their decisions.
Before they can decode the book, the hunter hounds attack. Erin and Trevian flee in search of something, anything, to stop the destruction of their worlds.
Other books from the Broken Cities universe can be found on the devoted Broken Cities Catalog page. Each unique story of this shared universe is stand-alone, and the stories of the Broken Cities universe can be read in any order.
Need more? “Copper Road” picks up where the novella “Aluminum Leaves” left off, filled with magic books, bandits, mind-controlling parasites, boardroom betrayals, lesbian lovers, charms and chocolate. Both are stand-alone stories.
Copper Road Trilogy
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