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In a thrilling debut by sixteen-year-old Helena Coggan, a girl with a terrible secret is tested to her limits as her fractured world teeters on the brink of war. Eighteen years ago, a dimensional break ripped open the sky, drawing humans into an ancient conflict. Otherworldly souls rained down and fused with those of people, dividing the population into the green-eyed, magical Gifted and the dark-eyed, nonmagical Ashkind. A devastating war followed, and the Gifted have managed a fragile peace ever since, largely through a brutal law enforcement organization known as the Department. Fifteen-year-old Rose s father, David, has a leading role in the Department. Rose and David are Gifted, but they are also something else something terrible. Their lives depend on keeping it secret.



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Helena Coggan

Helena Coggan is a writer from London. Her first novel, The Catalyst, was published when she was fifteen years old, and was named as one of 2015's debuts of the year by the Guardian and Amazon and featured by BBC Breakfast and NBC's Today. She is currently a student of physics at the University of Cambridge. The Witchling's Girl is her fourth novel.



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