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  • Location: Canada, Newfoundland, Atlantic Ocean

Company Town

Company Town

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New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes

  • ISBN: 978-0765382900
  • Genre: Young Adult

What you need to know before your trail

New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd.

Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to forgo bio-engineered enhancements. As such, she’s the last truly organic person left on the rig–making her doubly an outsider, as well as a neglected daughter and bodyguard extraordinaire. Still, her expertise in the arts of self-defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are yet in high demand. When the youngest Lynch needs training and protection, the family turns to Hwa. But can even she protect against increasingly intense death threats seemingly coming from another timeline?

Meanwhile, a series of interconnected murders threatens the city’s stability and heightens the unease of a rig turning over. All signs point to a nearly invisible serial killer, but all of the murders seem to lead right back to Hwa’s front door. Company Town has never been the safest place to be–but now, the danger is personal.

Travel Guide

New Arcadia

The Acadians  are the descendants of French colonists who settled in Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries. Their colony was in what is now the Maritime Provinces –  (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island), and part of Quebec.

During the seventeenth century, about sixty French families were established in Acadia. The French rule of Arcadia ended with the British conquest of 1710.

Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Company Town

Author/ Guide:   Madeline Ashby  Destination: Canada, Newfoundland, Atlantic Ocean  Departure Time: Future

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