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\nBook Summary:
\nMagic doesn't exist in the broken city of Lkossa anymore\, especially for girls like six teen-year-old Koffi. Indentured to the notorious Night Zoo\, she cares for its fearsome and magical creatures to pay off her family's debts and secu re their eventual freedom. But the night her loved ones' own safety is thr eatened by the Zoo's cruel master\, Koffi unleashes a power she doesn't fu lly understand--and the consequences are dire.
\nAs the second son o f a decorated hero\, Ekon is all but destined to become a Son of the Six-- an elite warrior--and uphold a family legacy. But on the night of his fina l rite of passage\, a fire upends his plans. In its midst\, Ekon not only encounters the Shetani--a vicious monster that has plagued the city and hi s nightmares for nearly a century--but a curious girl who seems to have th e power to ward off the beast. Koffi's power ultimately saves Ekon's life\ , but his choice to let her flee dooms his hopes of becoming a warrior.
\nDesperate to redeem himself\, Ekon vows to hunt the Shetani down and end its reign of terror\, but he can't do it alone. Meanwhile\, Koffi bel ieves finding the Shetani and selling it for a profit could be the key to solving her own problems. Koffi and Ekon--each keeping their true motives secret from the other--form a tentative alliance and enter into the unknow ns of the Greater Jungle\, a world steeped in wild magic and untold danger s. The hunt begins. But it quickly becomes unclear whether they are the hu nters or the hunted.
\nIn this much-anticipated series opener\, fate binds two Black teenagers together as they strike a dangerous alliance to hunt down the ancient creature menacing their home--and discover much mor e than they bargained for.
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