The Map of Bones

The Map of Bones
Francesca Haig

‘Set in a vividly realised world of elite Alphas and their ‘weaker’ Omega twins, it holds a mirror up to our obsession with perfection’ GuardianThe second book in Francesca Haig’s incredible Fire Sermon series.The Omega resistance has been brutally attacked, its members dead or in hiding.The Alpha Council’s plan for permanently containing the Omegas has begun.But all is not entirely lost: the Council’s seer, The Confessor, is dead, killed by her twin’s sacrifice.Cass is left haunted by visions of the past, while her brother Zach’s cruelty and obsession pushes her to the edge, and threatens to destroy everything she hopes for.As the country moves closer to all-out civil war, Cass will learn that to change the future she will need to uncover the past. But nothing can prepare her for what she discovers: a deeply buried secret that raises the stakes higher than ever before.

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First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2016

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Source ISBN: 9780007563098

Ebook Edition © April 2015 ISBN: 9780007563111

Version: 2016-08-04

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This book is dedicated, with love and gratitude, to my parents, Alan and Sally, who shared with me their enduring passion for words.

Contents

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