Without a Shadow 

It was just a game at the start.

 

Adlai Bringer remembers going to the desert market with her father: The colorful tents, the wink of gold, and her father’s shadow, black as night, as he sent it over the stalls to steal whatever trinket she wanted. He called it the Shadow Game.

 

You can only teach your shadow one trick.

 

After her father disappears, Adlai keeps going back to the market determined to find some trace of him and stealing what she can with her shadow. Until one day she picks the wrong mark—someone who knows her game and brutally tries to take her shadow for himself.

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The game has only just begun.

 

Everything Adlai thought she knew about her shadow is turned upside down, and her father’s disappearance takes on a new light as she’s forced to flee the city or risk being hunted. From the desert to the shadow world to even more unlikely places, Adlai soon discovers that her shadow is a gift worth killing for.