City of Ruin

<p><strong>The Collector is coming to claim what he's owed.</strong></p><p>Centuries ago the skies turned black and for 300 years Londoners survived in the dank underground tunnels of the city. Until one day a stranger from a faraway land offered to save them. Though it wasn't without cost . . . and he has come to collect.</p><p><br></p><p>When Selene is taken to Master Blackburn's infamous estate she fears she and the orphans she's sworn to protect will meet a gruesome end like so many others before them. But the beastly landowner is not all there is to fear and Selene soon learns nothing in Briarwood is as it seems.</p><p><br></p><p>Travel beyond the City of Ruin through the secret passageways and haunted woods to a land shrouded in secrets in this atmospheric retelling of Jane Eyre and Beauty and the Beast.</p><p><br></p><p>This is the first book in the richly imagined Ruined Lands a collection of historical fantasy and dystopian fairy tale retellings. Ruined Lands is a Forgotten Lands sister series.</p>