Books with title City of Lost Souls: 5

Freedom lies on the open sea. Danger lies within it.Rachel Goldstein dreams of the vast oceans, and her job in the Navy seems to offer her everything she'd ever hoped for. Her heart seeks adventure, but her mind is still ashore, where the last time she saw her parents, they had a fight that left everyone in tears. She wants reconciliation... which becomes impossible when she dies in a tragic aviation accident aboard her aircraft carrier.When she wakes up aboard a ghost ship, her new shipmates offer Rachel her only chance to seize adventure again, and she knows what she must do. Aboard this impressive and fearsome vessel is her opportunity to find new freedom -- if she can survive it. The ghostly high seas are fraught with danger, from devious officers to murderous pirates. And lurking underneath it all is Scylla, the mythological monster set to destroy anyone who encroaches on her aquatic territory.Normally ready for anything, Rachel will have to find out if she's stronger than her enemies and the beasts that lie below the waves. And at the end of it all, can she pierce the veil of death and reach through to the world of the living, and to her parents?

A CITY OF LOST SOULSFor decades, Cape Noire had existed on the northwest coast, a bustling metropolis of international commerce. Over time it became a nexus for all manner of evil and corruption fed by a dark, insidious spirit of darkness that seemed to infuse itself into the city’s very foundations.Then one night the strangest creature of them all was born in the midst of thunder, lighting and murder. He wears a torn black trench-coat, wide-brim fedora and a bone white skull mask while wielding twin silver-plated automatics. He is Cape Noire’s supernatural protector; Brother Bones – The Undead Avenger. At his hands none find mercy, only cold, unforgiving justice.He now returns in five macabre, horror-filled adventures pitting him against both monsters real and imaginary. Among these a notorious fiend garbed in blood red and known as Doctor Satan, Master of the Occult Arts. Once again, Award winning pulp scribe, Ron Fortier, offers up a collection of new Brother Bones exploits from his feverish imagination. In Cape Noire, the fun is only getting started.

With a new addition to their journey, a sealer boy who is bound by the collar of slavery, Mai, Long, and Akra escape the clutches of the sand slavers and then vicious Melkarie beasts. They travel to Naroan – the forest lands of the soulbankers, the regulators of life and death. Against the backdrop of rules and suspicion, the children are challenged with unravelling the mystery of the Silvershade, which has been calling to Akra from the moment he arrived in the forest city. But Long is tormented by his own doubts – he must face a deadly power from the Underworld before it takes him into the darkness.

Jace is now a servant of evil, bound for all eternity to Sebastian. Only a small band of Shadowhunters believe he can be saved. To do this they must defy the Clave. And they must act without Clary. For Clary is playing a dangerous game utterly alone. The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace's soul. Clary is willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?

This book will inspire children to see life through their souls eyes and feel the innocence, beauty, peace and love that surrounds each and every one of us. It is the beautiful story of a young souls curiosity about where it comes from, what the future may bring and the free will we all have to make choices that influence our journey. This book can be a great tool to ignite conversations about the meaning of life and the magnificence it holds. It is truly one of a kind.