Do you know who you are, or have you been misled? Are you the reader, or are you the read? But look at your world and your life seems to shrink to cities of paper and seas made of ink. Pages of oceans and margins of land are civilizations you hold in the palm of your hand. This is a book, and a book is a world, and words are the seeds in which meanings are curled. Stand alone or series: Book 1 in the Sea of Ink and Gold series In the end, she discovers what the book had been trying to tell her all along: Nothing is as it seems, and the end of her story is only the beginning. With no time to lose, and the unexpected help of swashbuckling pirates and an enigmatic stranger, Sefia sets out on a dangerous journey to rescue her aunt, using the book as her guide. Though reading is unheard of in Sefia’s world, she slowly learns, unearthing the book’s closely guarded secrets, which may be the key to Nin’s disappearance and discovering what really happened the day her father was killed. Her only clue is a strange rectangular object that once belonged to her father left behind, something she comes to realize is a book. But when Nin is kidnapped, Sefia is suddenly on her own, with no way to know who’s taken Nin or where she is. They survive in the wilderness together, hunting and stealing what they need, forever looking over their shoulders for new threats. After her father is viciously murdered, she flees to the forest with her aunt Nin, the only person left she can trust. Once there was, and one day there will be. Genre: Speculative Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopia, Young Adult

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