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When Daniel Blackland was six, he ingested his first bone fragment, a bit of kraken spine plucked out of the sand during a visit with his demanding, brilliant, and powerful magician father, Sebastian.When Daniel was twelve, he watched Sebastian die at the hands of the Hierarch of Southern California, devoured for the heightened magic layered deep within his bones.Now, years later, Daniel is a petty thief with a forged identity. Hiding amid the crowds in Los Angeles--the capital of the Kingdom of Southern California--Daniel is trying to go straight. But his crime-boss uncle has a heist he wants Daniel to perform break into the Hierarchs storehouse of magical artifacts and retrieve Sebastians sword, an object of untold power. For this dangerous mission, Daniel will need a team he can rely on, so he brings in his closest friends from his years in the criminal world.



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Greg Van Eekhout

Greg van Eekhout writes novels for adults and young readers. His middle-grade novels include Weird Kid, Cog, Voyage of the Dogs, The Boy at the End of the World, and Kid vs. Squid. His adult novels include Norse Code, and the Daniel Blackland trilogy (California Bones, Pacific Fire, and Dragon Coast) . He lives in San Diego.



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