Wraith

It was a new world to which we were confined because of a bargain I'd made with Death himself: no paradise for Luc & the exiled, & none for me. But the moment I made my choice, I was marked for sacrifice, as was Ryan. A price was settled; a debt, escalated. Time. There would never be enough.It's been two years since Gia Basso witnessed archangels & demons waging war upon each other beneath the dome of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan. Traumatised, Gia has been in self-imposed exile on the English coast.But the sudden reappearance of Mercy in her life, in a new & terrifying incarnation, draws Gia into a desperate struggle to locate Lucifer — who holds Ryan Daley captive in order to keep him from Mercy, his beloved, forever.Tasked by the archangels to destroy Lucifer, & by Mercy to help her trace & free Ryan, Gia is pushed to the limits of human endurance as she traverses the earth — with the help of friends old & new...°°°Rebecca Lim is an Australian writer, illustrator, editor & lawyer in Melbourne. She is the author of over 20 books, including The Astrologer's Daughter (a Kirkus Best Book of 2015 & CBCA Notable Book for Older Readers), Wraith & the internationally bestselling Mercy. Her work has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards & Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, shortlisted multiple times for the Aurealis Awards & Davitt Awards, & longlisted for the Gold Inky Award & the David Gemmell Legend Award. Rebecca is a co-founder of the Voices from the Intersection initiative to support emerging young adult & children's authors & illustrators who are First Nations, People of Colour, LGBTIQA+ or living with disability, & is a co-editor of Meet Me at the Intersection, a groundbreaking anthology of YA #OwnVoice memoir, poetry & fiction. It was a new world to which we were confined because of a bargain I'd made with Death himself: no paradise for Luc and the exiled, and none for me. But the moment I made my choice, I was marked for sacrifice, as was Ryan. A price was settled; a debt, escalated. Time. There would never be enough. It's been two years since Gia Basso witnessed archangels and demons waging war upon each other beneath the dome of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan. Traumatised, Gia has been in self-imposed exile on the English coast. But the sudden reappearance of Mercy in her life, in a new and terrifying incarnation, draws Gia into a desperate struggle to locate Lucifer — who holds Ryan Daley captive in order to keep him from Mercy, his beloved, forever. Tasked by the archangels to destroy Lucifer, and by Mercy to help her trace and free Ryan, Gia is pushed to the limits of human endurance as she traverses the earth — with the help of friends old and new — to do the impossible. For Lucifer and his demons have discovered a new way to move freely in the human world. And Mercy and Gia must bargain with the Archangel of Death himself, Azraeil, to get what they want. Wraith is the fifth dark, thrilling and genre-defying instalment of the much-loved Mercy series from the acclaimed author of The Astrologer's Daughter. 'A racy story of good and evil in a world where angels aren't all sweetness and light' — Sunday Herald Sun Annotation. The sudden reappearance of Mercy in Gia Basso's life, in a new and terrifying incarnation, draws Gia into a desperate struggle to locate Lucifer - who holds Ryan Daley captive in order to keep him from Mercy, his beloved, forever. Wraith is the fifth dark, thrilling and genre-defying instalment of the much-loved Mercy series