Fascinating part of the world and great opportunity to learn as well as be entertained by an author who grew up in Pakistan. My sister is going to love this one, she was stationed in Pakistan for a while and loved meeting the local people. Check it out and let us know what you think of this beautiful cover!
THE
KEEPERS:
Sixteen-year-old Isra Kalb has grown up starving in the slums of Islamabad. But hunger is only the beginning. When her father is mysteriously murdered and madness corrupts her mother's mind, she's left alone to fend for herself and her sister. Homeless and destitute, the only thing she has to remember her loving family by is a commonplace necklace--an amulet barely worth keeping.
Sixteen-year-old Isra Kalb has grown up starving in the slums of Islamabad. But hunger is only the beginning. When her father is mysteriously murdered and madness corrupts her mother's mind, she's left alone to fend for herself and her sister. Homeless and destitute, the only thing she has to remember her loving family by is a commonplace necklace--an amulet barely worth keeping.
Or so she thinks.
Swept into a web of lies, deceit and
turmoil, Isra struggles to find a place for herself and Zaffirah, wondering if
the strange creatures and visions she's seeing are indications of the madness
that took her mother. But when Snatchers capture Zaffirah, Isra learns her
amulet isn't so useless after all. Transported to Zarcane--the beastly garden
where Adam and Eve were born--Isra comes face to face with her destiny. She's a
Keeper, charged with protecting the borders of Zarcane and keeping the demon
hordes lurking in the shadows from taking realms that are not their own. And
she's not the only one; there's a second Keeper, a boy whose identity hasn't
been revealed.
Now, in order to save her sister and
fulfill her family's legacy as Keeper of the Amulet, she has to find the second
Keeper and close the borders. Surrounded by betrayal, trapped between warring
factions of angels, and desperate to save the only family she has left, Isra
must decide:
Who can she trust
when nothing is what it seems?
ABOUT ANOOSHA LALANI:
Anoosha Lalani has always had an insatiable desire to escape reality. It was a childhood trait that never seemed to fade out. If Anoosha were to make one wish, it would be to have wings to journey off the face of this planet and into the worlds of her stories.
When she’s not writing, you may find Anoosha attending high school in Singapore. Having moved around so much, she has had the wonderful opportunity to be exposed to a vibrant range of cultures, which often seem to find their way into her stories. Anoosha was born in Pakistan, the setting of her most recent novel, The Keepers.
Connect with Anoosha on her website and twitter, or add The Keepers on goodreads.
ABOUT ANOOSHA LALANI:
Anoosha Lalani has always had an insatiable desire to escape reality. It was a childhood trait that never seemed to fade out. If Anoosha were to make one wish, it would be to have wings to journey off the face of this planet and into the worlds of her stories.
When she’s not writing, you may find Anoosha attending high school in Singapore. Having moved around so much, she has had the wonderful opportunity to be exposed to a vibrant range of cultures, which often seem to find their way into her stories. Anoosha was born in Pakistan, the setting of her most recent novel, The Keepers.
Connect with Anoosha on her website and twitter, or add The Keepers on goodreads.
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