Rented out as tour guides, the kids lead parties of wealthy people across the island on a single road, protecting them from the physical and immaterial threats of the jungle. Victoria and her co-workers are enslaved youth in an alternate Jamaica, where only their magic blood-wildblood-keeps them from becoming food or worse within the great jungle that surrounds their camp.
This is a great book! Lauren Blackwood presents a world so whole and fascinating that it's easy and a delight just to sink in and go for the ride. Penelope, award-winning author of the Earthsinger Chronicles Victoria's tense journey through the haunted jungle is filled with terror and beauty, both supernatural and human, and will grip you until the very last page." - L. " Wildblood is a poignant, thrilling, emotionally complex story of love and sacrifice.
"A lyrically told story of healing after trauma and finding home, Wildblood is as fierce as it is beautiful, and as hopeful as it is heartbreaking." - Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf But the jungle is treacherous, and between hypnotic river spirits, soul-devouring women that shed their skin like snakes, and her ex out for revenge, Victoria has to decide - is promotion at a corrupt company really what she wants?Ī fierce, lush fantasy by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blackwood, Wildblood tells the story of a girl who must find the strength to defeat the demons of the jungle as well as her own to find where she truly belongs. And when he entrusts the mission to her, kindness turns to mutual respect, turns to affection, turns to love. Thorn is everything Victoria isn't - confident, impossibly kind, and so handsome he leaves her speechless. Her magic may be the most powerful on the team, but she’s not the image the boss wants to send their new client, Thorn, a renowned goldminer determined to reach an untouched gold supply deep in the jungle. When the boss denies Victoria an earned promotion to team leader in favor of Dean, her backstabbing ex, she’s determined to prove herself.
Since she was kidnapped at the age of six and manipulated by the Exotic Lands Touring Company, she’s worked as a tour guide ever since with a team of fellow Wildbloods who take turns using their magic to protect travelers in a Jamaican jungle teeming with ghostly monsters. A thrilling new fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blackwood!Įighteen-year-old Victoria is a Wildblood.
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