![]() ![]() Desperate to find him – and to protect him – she joins the mission sent to hunt him down. ![]() Then Imani discovers signs her brother may be alive, and spreading their nation’s magic to outsiders. Despite her brother’s betrayal, there isn’t a day that goes by when Imani doesn’t grieve him. Soon after that, he disappeared, believed to have perished beyond the Forbidden Wastes. Her reputation has been overshadowed, however, by her brother, who tarnished the family name after it was revealed that he was stealing their nation’s coveted spice-a tell-tale sign of magical obsession. With her affinity for iron, seventeen-year-old Imani can wield a dagger like no other – and for that she has gained a reputation as the next greatest Shield, battling djinn, ghouls, and the other monsters spreading across the sands. In the hidden desert city of Qalia, secret spice magic awakens affinities in those who drink the misra tea. Raised to protect her nation from the monsters lurking in the sands, seventeen-year-old Imani must fight to find her brother whose betrayal is now their greatest threat. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Law student Lily Hayes is following determinedly in her grandfather’s footsteps - anything to make sure she doesn’t end up like her flaky, “free-spirited” mother. ![]() So when Jameson gets the chance to seize the most powerful bargaining chip of all, he goes all in. In fact, all he’s ever wanted is to wipe the smile off the face of the thieving judge who stole his family’s inheritance. Since then, his life has been one big run-in with the justice system - not that Jameson has ever had any faith in the law. Jameson Hill has been a walking crime scene ever since he lost both parents as a teenager. When love takes you hostage, what’s the correct response: fight or flight? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby - even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga. Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. ![]() |