02711cam a2200325 4500 534823616 TxGeo 20210918120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781940456461 1940456460 B019WQU7XW Amazon 055b645f-93e7-4872-a709-d5778619c62f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2544024 OverDrive (Product ID) TxGeo Ward, Patricia. Skinner Luce [Libby] : A Novel. Skyhorse Publishing, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1378kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1378kB. Fantasy. Fiction. HTML:<b>"A gut-punching novel, consistently taut and bleak," and one of Amazon's 20 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2016 (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>).</b><br /> <br /> Unknown to humanity, dangerous visitors from another world arrive in the cold of winter. Disguised as humans, the Nafikh move in secret, hungry for tastes of this existence. Their fickle, often-violent needs must be accommodated at all times, and the price of keeping them satisfied is paid most heavily by servs.<br /> <br /> Created by the Nafikh to attend their every whim, servs are physically indistinguishable from humans but for the painful, white-hot energy that both animates and enslaves them. Destined to live in pain and bondage, servs dwell in a bleak underworld where life is brutal and short.<br /> <br /> Lucy, a serv who arrived as a baby, was adopted by humans in a twist of fate. For years she has walked a tightrope, balancing the horrors of her secret serv existence and the ordinary life she desperately longs to maintain.<br /> <br /> But when Lucy is implicated in the gruesome death of a fellow serv, the worlds she's tried so hard to keep separate collide. Hounded by the police and betrayed by her own kind, she must prove her innocence before everything she values is utterly destroyed—in this novel of "high-caliber, often engrossing literary sci-fi (<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>). Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-16 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=055b645f-93e7-4872-a709-d5778619c62f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=055b645f-93e7-4872-a709-d5778619c62f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=055b645f-93e7-4872-a709-d5778619c62f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) QS5