Seventh City
Emily Hayse
Paperback
(Bowker, Aug. 20, 2019)
The Invaders have been unstoppable ever since they set foot on Riangrad soilfifteen years ago. Unable to check them withweapons, a myth was begun of seven jewel-encrusted cities, the last being the greatest of all, to tempt them into fruitless search and to cover a greater secret. But for Maki the fiction takes on a different meaning when her brother is taken hostage and trapped into saying that he has seen the city. Hoping to free him, Maki joins the party of Invaders as a horse boy.When she starts to fall for a young soldier, she begins to question her firmideas on race and people, but as the party ventures closer and closer to the truth,she has to decide which side she is actually on.