Deep beneath a modern metropolis lies the Catacombs, a kingdom of remarkable rats of superior intellect. Following the Bloody Coup, the once peaceful democracy has become a dictatorship, ruled by decadent High Minister Killdeer and his vicious henchman Billycan, a former lab rat with a fondness for butchery.<\/p>\r\n
Three young orphan rats–brothers Vincent and Victor and a clever female named Clover–join forces with Billycan\u2019s archenemy, Juniper, and his maverick band of rebel rats as they plot to overthrow their oppressors and create a new city–Nightshade City. This impossible-to-put-down fantasy explores timeless themes of freedom, forgiveness, the bonds of family, and the power of love.<\/p>\r\n
THE WHITE ASSASSIN<\/span>\r\n<\/b>Book 2 \u2013 October 2011, Holiday House<\/strong><\/p>\r\n NIGHTSHADE CITY<\/span>\r\n<\/b>Book 1 \u2013 October 2010, Holiday House, 260 pp<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deep beneath a modern metropolis lies the Catacombs, a kingdom of remarkable rats of superior intellect. Following the Bloody Coup, the once peaceful democracy has become a dictatorship, ruled by decadent High Minister Killdeer and his vicious henchman Billycan, a former lab rat with a fondness for butchery. Three young orphan rats–brothers Vincent and Victor […]","protected":false},"author":[207],"featured_media":1005,"parent":611,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"content_book_template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[152,153,147,120,128],"rights_available":[121,122,123,124],"literary_agent":[140],"publication_year":[236],"class_list":["post-1002","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-grade","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-animals","tag-family","tag-fantasy","rights_available-audio","rights_available-dramatic","rights_available-translation","rights_available-uk","author-hilary-wagner","literary_agent-marietta-zacker","publication_year-236"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1002\/revisions\/1868"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"rights_available","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rights_available?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"literary_agent","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_agent?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"publication_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_year?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}