But Sydney and Theos deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear.

When does coincidence become conspiracy?

Where do people go when gentrification pushes them out?

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Seven Shooter

Can Sydney and Theo trust each otheror themselveslong enough to find out before they too disappear?

With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dads in prison.

Until, that is, Maverick finds out hes a father.

January Nelson

Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything.

But its not so easy to sling dope, finish school,andraise a child.

So when hes offered the chance to go straight, he takes it.

In a world where hes expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove hes different.

When King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you cant just walk away.

Hell have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man.

Then she finds a strange book.

Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.

And shell occasionally put on a cool suit and beat up bad guys, if she feels like it.

As they uncover an ongoing threat, suddenly much more is at stake than their fragile friendship.

and enter the world of spirits.

Her best friend is even a ghost.

So things are already pretty strange.

But theyre about to get much stranger.

Here, graveyards, castles, and secret passageways teem with restless phantoms.

And shell have to learn fast.

The city of ghosts is more dangerous than she ever imagined.

Would any of these other lives truly be better?