Her father is the guardian of the veil between our world and the Dark-where an army led by the Lord of Shadows, the man from Maya’s nightmares, awaits. When Papa goes missing, Maya is thrust into a world both strange and familiar as she uncovers the truth. But to Maya, it sounds like something from one of Papa’s stories or her favorite comics. Her friends try to find an explanation-perhaps a ghost uprising or a lunchroom experiment gone awry. Twelve-year-old Maya is the only one in her South Side Chicago neighborhood who witnesses weird occurrences like werehyenas stalking the streets at night and a scary man made of shadows plaguing her dreams.
".world-saving heroics bring this West African-infused series to a satisfying end.GoodReads: Twelve-year-old Maya’s search for her missing father puts her at the center of a battle between our world, the Orishas, and the mysterious and sinister Dark world. Will she succeed or will Darkness prevail, once and for all? With her friends-Eli, Frankie, Zeran, and Eleni-by her side, Maya leads the charge in an epic showdown that takes her across worlds and to the edge of the universe.
She must face the Lord of Shadows or risk losing everything. But when an attack hits close to home, Maya doesn't have any more time to prepare. She's honing her guardian powers, with the help of two new allies-her long lost guardian sister and a mysterious darkbringer (who might be a double agent). Maya and her friends aren't going down without a fight. And it's only a matter of time before he breaks through the veil and destroys Maya's neighborhood and the rest of the world. The Lord of Shadows has raised an army powerful enough to challenge the orishas. Despite everything Maya and her father have done, the veil that protects the human world is failing. In the thrilling third and final book in the acclaimed Maya and the Rising Dark trilogy that Kirkus calls "truly #BlackGirlMagic," Maya must face off with the Lord of Shadows to save the human world from impending war with the Dark. About the Book "In the thrilling third and final book in the acclaimed Maya and the Rising Dark trilogy that Kirkus calls truly #BlackGirlMagic, Maya must face off with the Lord of Shadows to save the human world from impending war with the Dark".
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