Taipan: THE KARRKAY SHADOW: "Ancient Balance" (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798197056900)

"We were never lost-we were only gathering the fire in our bones."

Alira's story begins with a bell, a strike, and a shadow that refuses to leave.

At first, the danger hides inside ordinary places: school corridors, homework, family silence, rain on black stone. But soon the world around Alira becomes something sharper and stranger. Messages appear like blood Morse. Cairns watches without blinking. The forest turns into a trap. Moonlight brings change, and the stars carry a weight too heavy for one child to hold.

Nine families have secrets. Nine alibis protect the truth. And somewhere beneath it all waits the breath of the serpent.

As Alira is pushed toward the final strike, she must learn that courage is not the absence of fear-it is the fire that grows inside the bones when fear comes close. To survive the shadow, she must face what has been hidden, what has been inherited, and what she is becoming.

"Taipan: The Karrkay Shadow is a hunting dreamtime story of courage, identity, survival, and the darkness a girl has walked through to protect her way of life."
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