My plan: Get into the city. Get Nadia. Find a way out. Simple. A week ago, seventeen-year-old Lela Santoss best friend, Nadia, killed herself. Today, thanks to a farewell ritual gone awry, Lela is standing in paradise, looking upon a vast gated city in the distancehell. No one willingly walks through the Suicide Gates, into a place smothered in darkness and infested with depraved creatures. But Lela isnt just anyoneshes determined to save her best friends soul, even if it means sacrificing her eternal afterlife. As Lela struggles to find Nadia, shes captured by the Guards, enormous, not-quite-human creatures that patrol the dark citys endless streets. Their all-too human leader, Malachi, is unlike them in every way except one: his deadly efficiency. When he meets Lela, Malachi forms his own plan: get her out of the city, even if it means she must leave Nadia behind. Malachi knows something Lela doesntthe dark city isnt the worst place Lela could end up, and he will stop at nothing to keep her from that fate. Sanctum is Sarah Fines first novel.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Guards Of the Shadowlands .

This book is aimed at children at US 9th grade-11th grade.

There are 448 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2012 by Amazon Publishing .

Sarah Fine is a child psychologist and the author of several books for teens and adults. Walter Jury works in the film industry. Burn is his second novel. "