The Plentiful Darkness

By Heather Kassner

An orphaned girl must retrieve her stolen mirror from a starless realm where children vanish.

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256 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Twelve-year-old Rooney de Barra survives by collecting moonlight with her magical mirror. When Trick Aidan, a rival boy, steals it, Rooney must venture into a dark, starless world to retrieve it. In this eerie land, children have disappeared, and Rooney faces the terrifying unknown. Forced to team up with Trick, she must confront a mysterious magician and unravel the secrets trapping the children of Warybone. Will Rooney reclaim her mirror and save the missing children, or will the darkness consume them all? Dive into a world where magic and danger intertwine in a race against time.

From the publisher

In Heather Kassner’s spine-chilling fantasy novel, reminiscent of Serafina and the Black Cloak, an orphaned girl chases a thieving boy into a magician’s land of starless, moonless gloom where other children have gone missing before her.Gleams with an eerie magic, its characters burning bright and fierce. A visual treat of a tale. –Stefan Bachmann, international bestselling author of Cinders and Sparrows In order to survive on her own, twelve-year-old Rooney de Barra collects precious moonlight, which she draws from the evening sky with her (very rare and most magical) lunar mirror. All the while she tries to avoid the rival roughhouse boys, and yet another, more terrifying danger: the dreaded thing that’s been disappearing children in the night. When Trick Aidan, the worst of the roughhouse boys, steals her lunar mirror, Rooney will do whatever it takes to get it back. Even if it means leaping into a pool of darkness after it swallows Trick and her mirror. Or braving the Plentiful Darkness, a bewitching world devoid of sky and stars. Or begrudgingly teaming up with Trick to confront the magician and unravel the magic that has trapped Warybone’s children.

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