Jared P Woods: A City Beneath, Gebunden

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Some history stays buried for a reason.

Declan Riley stood at the edge of a hole in the ground and looked down at something that shouldn't exist. It was two years before he understood what he was looking at, and by then it was too late to leave it alone.

When he finally goes down, he takes his best friend Patrick with him. Neither of them is ready for what's under the Texas dirt. A staircase into the dark that goes further than it should. A canyon so vast the far wall disappears into black. And below it all, a city, glowing against the dark like something out of a story, sealed away five hundred years ago by people who wanted it forgotten.

Cerythia is beautiful. It is also nothing like the wonder they imagined. The people who live there have never seen the sun. They have not forgotten it. And the man who rules them has spent his life making sure nobody goes looking for it.

Within hours the two boys are caught up in a desperate rescue, a city on the brink, and a ruler who wants them silenced before they can climb back into the light. Every road out runs straight through the thing that wants them gone. They find allies who have their own reasons for helping, and every answer they dig up costs them something.

The deeper they go, the darker the truth becomes. And the question is not just whether they will make it out.

It is what is waiting to follow them up.

A City Beneath is the first book in The Cerythian Chronicles, a young adult fantasy adventure for readers who like their lost worlds dangerous and their heroes in over their heads. Perfect for fans of underground cities, buried history, and friendships that get tested past the point most people would quit.