Red City (New Alchemists #1)

Red City (New Alchemists #1)

Author: Marie Lu Listening Length: 15h 19m

Alchemy is the hidden art of transformation. An exclusive power wielded by crime syndicates that market it to the world’s elites in the form of sand, a drug that enhances those who take it into a more perfect version of themselves: more beautiful, more charismatic, simply more. Among the gleaming skyscrapers and rolli...

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For a moment, she thinks he didn’t come. No one is standing on the sand. A mixture of dread and relief floods her at the thought that tonight won’t happen. She can return to her apartment, fall back into an unconscious state.

Then something moves in the shadows near the stone arches. When she looks there, she sees Ari’s silhouette under the first archway, shadowed against the strange silver of the night.

She stops cold.

In his eyes is the bleakest emotion she’s ever seen, liquid dark with grief. It is so devastating that she tears her gaze away for a moment, unable to bear it. Does she look like that to him? Can he see the hole in her heart, the wound left by her mother’s death?