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. 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. But neither Arilou nor Hathin is exactly what she seems, and they live a lie that is carefully constructed and jealously guarded. And what a dreadful title for this cracking, magical, brilliantly written tale. Hathin, her junior, is her nearly invisible attendant. This is a truly wonderful book - see other reviews under UK title - but beware - dont order it twice by mistake, thinking that 'The Lost Conspiracy' is a new Hardinge. It is here, in the midst of ancient tensions and new calamity, that two sisters are caught in a deadly web of deceits.Īrilou is proclaimed a beautiful prophetess one of the island's precious oracles: a Lost. 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.
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