Pero cuando Paige es capturada y arrestada, se encuentra con un poder más siniestro que el de Scion. La prisión de los clarividentes se encuentra en la ciudad de Oxford, ahora controlada por una raza poderosa de otro mundo. Estas criaturas, los Rephaim, valoran mucho a los clarividentes como soldados para su ejército. Paige será asignada a una de estas criaturas, el guardián Warden, quien estará a cargo de su cuidado y entrenamiento. Él será su amo, su enemigo natural. Si Paige quiere recuperar la libertad tendrá que aprender algo de su mente y de los secretos que el guardián encierra.

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The internationally bestselling debut fantasy novel by Samantha Shannon, New York Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree and A Day of Fallen Night.

"Intelligent, inventive, dark, and engrossing." NPR

Welcome to Scion. No safer place.

The year is 2059. For two centuries, the Republic of Scion has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in Europe.

In London, Paige Mahoney holds a high rank in the criminal underworld. The right hand of the ruthless White Binder, Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare and formidable kind of clairvoyant. Under Scion law, she commits treason simply by breathing.

When Paige is arrested for murder, she meets the mysterious founders of Scion, who have designs on her uncommon abilities. If she is to survive and escape, Paige must use every skill at her disposal - and put her trust in someone who ought to be her enemy.