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A mark you didn't choose. A society that wants you gone.
Sixteen‑year‑old orphan Lucy Parkens knows only hunger and fog. Then a dying workhouse inmate gives her a diary—her dead mother’s. Inside: the truth about the crescent scar behind Lucy’s ear. A shadow network called the Circle has been hunting that mark for centuries.
Now Lucy runs. From the elegant, ruthless Madame Vesper. From workhouse guards. From a conspiracy that stretches from Victorian London to the skyscrapers of 2026.
No magic. No superpowers. Just a girl, a dying friend, and a diary written by a woman who died before Lucy was born. Her final words: “You are not alone.”
The Circle never counted on Lucy Parkens.
