Soot

The electrifying sequel to the national bestseller Smoke - bringing back readers to a world that Entertainment Weekly called "Part Dickens, part dystopia, and totally immersive."It has been ten years since Thomas Argyle, Charlie Cooper and Livia Naylor set off a revolution by releasing Smoke upon the world. Erasmus Renfrew, the avowed enemy of Smoke, is now Lord Protector of Engand. But the consequences were far greater than they had imagined, and the world has fractured.

Mowgli, whose body was used to trigger the tempest that unleashed the Smoke, now calls himself Nils and is a chameleon-like thief living in New York. Thomas Argyle is in India, on a mission to find out the origins of Smoke. Elizabeth Renfrew, Erasmus' niece is in hiding.

Her uncles experiments endured has given her a strange power over Smoke. Believing her