Garden of the Cursed by Katy Rose Pool EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Katy Rose Pool
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They say summer storms in Caraza bring more than rain. When lightning
crackles across the sky and the air gets thick enough to chew, it means
trouble isn’t far behind.
Marlow wasn’t one for superstition, but when the sky broke open the
moment she stepped onto the dock at Breaker’s Neck, even she had to admit
the timing was portentous.
On the muddy isthmus below the dock, husks of rust and steel sat
beached like whale carcasses, some of them nearly intact and some already
gutted. Laborers stripped the hulls like scavengers picking the bones of
some great behemoth, the crash of falling debris indistinguishable from the
thunder shaking the sky.
Generally, Marlow avoided Breaker’s Neck as much as possible, and not
just because of the noise and the thick stench of scorched metal and brine
that emanated from the ship-breaker’s yard. Most parts of the Marshes were
loud and smelly, but Breaker’s Neck presented an additional threat—it was
Copperhead territory. A dangerous place for anyone in the Marshes to find
themselves, but especially risky for Marlow.
But it wasn’t like she had much of a choice. This case had dragged on
for almost two weeks, and time was up. Tonight was the grand premiere of
The Ballad of the Moon Thief, and if its prima ballerina had any hope of
performing, Marlow was going to have to brave the danger.
Tugging the hood of her jacket over her head, she sloshed across the
crooked plankway that sagged along the isthmus, heading for the rusted
remains of an empire dreadnought. The ship was keeled over and half sunk
in the mud, but unlike the other ships around it, there was no one stripping
this one apart.
Marlow carefully climbed down the steel ladder that rose from the
dreadnought’s cavernous belly, hopping down the last few rungs and
landing on what had once been the bulkhead of one of the compartments. A
hermetic hatch led to the main deck. Pushing a wet strand of hair out of her
face, Marlow marched over to it.
“Nightshade.” As she uttered the password, the handle spun and the
hatch swung inward.
With her stomach squirming like a bucket of crayfish, Marlow stepped
into the Blind Tiger.
Bioluminescent lamps glinted off the corrugated walls of the
dreadnought, turning the whole bar a malevolent dark purple. Voices
clambered over one another, punctuated by the high notes of clinking
glasses. This early in the evening the crowd was thin, with no real
entertainment save a lone zither player plucking in the corner.
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