Used Book – The Stone Light, Kai Meyer, Françoise Périgaud

Imagine a world where the Devil truly exists, for a 19th-century explorer discovered the kingdom of Hell beneath the earth. Imagine a world that the Egyptian armies of the resurrected pharaoh, aboard their solar barges, are attempting to conquer; only Venice, protected by the Queen of the Waters, had managed to resist them until now. Alas, the city of two hundred canals eventually falls into the hands of the pharaoh and his army of undead mummies. The Queen of the Waters manages to find refuge in the mind of Merle, a fourteen-year-old orphan girl who has become her friend. Meanwhile, the young master thief Serafin allies himself with the former apprentices of the magical mirror maker Arcimboldo, the sphinx Lalapéia, and the siren Unke to try and organize the resistance. As for Merle, with the help of the flying stone lion, Vermithrax, she flees and plunges into the bowels of the earth to explore Hell. For only an alliance with the Devil himself could free her city. This is the beginning of an extraordinary journey, which will lead her from revelation to revelation...