Book description
In the city of Agora, anything can be bought and sold. Even
children are possessions until their twelfth birthday.
Mark has been sold by his father, and Lily, an orphan from birth,
has bartered for her life. Thrown together by chance, in the ancient
tower of Count Stelli, they face an existence of poverty and
servitude, unless they can find a way to break free.
But, unbeknown to Mark and Lily, they are being watched by the ruler
of the city. Can they survive the traps and treachery that await them
and discover the dark secret that binds them together?
Their lives depend on this question: what is the Midnight Charter?
David Whitley was born in 1984 and at the age of twenty he won the
Cheshire Prize for Literature. He later graduated from the University of
Oxford with a double first in English Literature. TV quiz fans will have
spotted David on BBC2's
University Challenge
, when he was a member of Oxford's Corpus Christi team who became Series
Champions in 2005.
