The Dark Shore    by A A Attanasio
Price: $2.99 USD. 148660 words. Published on May 27, 2012. .
Once a city floated regally among the clouds. It is gone, its citizens slain. All that is good has been crushed. But there are those who survive and remember, those who still revere the magic that failed them all. The highborn and lowly -- a handful allied against the most terrible force ever massed -- dedicate themselves to the impossible salvation of their home, their Irth.