City of Day

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>City of Day - Deadly by Night</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>By day Astera is a bustling port city with shops markets shipyards and people going about their day to day lives. But every night when the sun sets the people of Astera board ships and abandon their home to dark murderous ghosts -- The Vaim.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Thislen lost his father to the vengeful spirits years ago and has barely survived on the streets as a common thief since. He dreams of escaping the dark truths of the island for good but a family secret keeps him tied to the island and the oppressive Ruling Council. When he finds he is not the</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>only one avoiding the entitled and sadistic gaze of Astera's nobility Thislen</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>plans to help the gentle healer Mila leave everything behind to save them both</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-- him from secrets and her from an unwanted marriage.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>However Lord Soren Bestant head of the Ruling Council and spurned suitor won't let them go so easily. Caught and sentenced to a night on the island and the mercy of the Vaim Thislen's only hope is to reveal his family's secret to save them or die. But Mila's family has a secret of its own as does the Ruling Council.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Vaim are not what they seem -- and the fate of the kingdom hangs on the truth.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>City of Day</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is the first novel of Astera from October K. Santerelli (</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Storm's Eye</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>).</span></p>