Esmerelda Midnight is not her true name, but it's the one she must carry. At 12, life is bleak. A servant to the wealthy Snows and Midwinters, she faces abject cruelty from her teacher, Sestren Agrippa, in a crumbling orphanage haunted by spirits of the past--and darker things, hidden in the cellar. But hope arrives in the form of Reynard the Fox, a wizard seeking his lost daughter, Rosamunda, who tasks Esme with a quest. With the looming threat of a Great Feast that could end humanity, Esme's journey takes her to the Tree of Life and across treacherous waters with the Whale-King. Can she defy her fate and save them the world from the malignant powers that now rule it? A dystopian fantasy novel with the unusual setting of an alternate world post-Apocalyptic 1970's Canada. Anti-bullying themes.
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