An orphaned hero plucked out of obscurity. A rising evil that only he can stop. A magical world hidden beneath our own. These elements might sound familiar, but crack open C.S. Pacat’s Dark Rise (out Sept. 28) and you’ll realize you’ve never seen them done like this before.
In this first book of a planned YA trilogy, would-be hero Will is 16 years old and working as a dock boy in 19th century London, secretly on the run from the mysterious men