The lost conspiracy

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Information & Library Science Library — Juvenile

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J Hardinge
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Summary

On an island of sandy beaches, dense jungles, and slumbering volcanoes, colonists seek to apply archaic laws to a new land, bounty hunters stalk the living for the ashes of their funerary pyres, and a smiling tribe is despised by all as traitorous murderers. It is here, in the midst of ancient tensions and new calamity, that two sisters are caught in adeadly web of deceits.

Arilou is proclaimed a beautiful prophetess--one of the island's precious oracles: a Lost. Hathin, her junior, is her nearly invisible attendant. But neither Arilou nor Hathin is exactly what she seems, and they live a lie that is carefully constructed and jealously guarded.

When the sisters are unknowingly drawn into a sinister, island-wide conspiracy, quiet, unobtrusive Hathin must journey beyond all she has ever known of her world--and of herself--in a desperate attempt to save them both. As the stakes mount and falsehoods unravel, she discovers that the only thing more dangerous than the secret she hides is the truth she must uncover.

Contents

Arilou -- Twisted tongues -- Farsight fish -- Trial and trickery -- Current-caught -- Going through the gongs -- Teething trouble -- Heat haze -- No more names -- Amid the ashes -- Dread of dyeing -- Sorrow in silence -- A slippery slope -- Bloodied butterfly -- For the wronged, a reckoning -- A glimpse of a ghost -- Killer kind -- Hunters -- The superior's soap -- The blue cloth -- Lesson's end -- Dangerous creatures -- A little light -- Stratagems and surprises -- Thief of threads -- The superior's stand -- Death dance -- Witch-hunt -- A new sister -- The sound of waves -- A lost lost -- Soul steeling -- The king of tricks -- A tooth for a tooth -- Lord Spearhead -- Rescue -- The man without a face -- The wailing way -- All change.

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