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Winner of the 2013 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, this story explores a mysterious event in an Australian town and the secrets surrounding it. Emily Ruff, a talented member of a powerful organization of manipulators called poets, faces consequences after a romantic misstep. Wil Parke, immune to the poets' influence and unaware of his past, finds himself caught in a tense race to uncover a deadly weapon rooted in the power of words.