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Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal—including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want. But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other.

All Napoleon Davis wants to do after another long week of working multiple jobs for next to nothing is grab a beer at his regular bar with his roommates. Then, while on his walk home through Brooklyn, he finds a man bleeding out in an alley; all signs point to attempted murder. His decision to stop and help leads to him getting swept up in the elite world of the New York aristocracy where conspiracies, corruption, and betrayal run rampant almost as much as open bars, fine dining, and limousines. And what starts off as the act of a "good samaritan" quickly devolves into a fight for life itself.