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Something is wrong with London. Not a feeling - a fact. The figures that don't move right. The smells with no source. The thing Scarlet Daylor has been logging in her notes app for weeks, because writing it down means she doesn't have to decide what it means yet.

She's seventeen, East London, trains MMA at a gym in Bermondsey. Strong, getting stronger, burning through food she can't explain needing. She performs loyalty to a school friendship group she's starting to hate herself for. She keeps her head down. She handles things alone - her mum taught her that, and it's the one lesson that has never let her down.

Until it does.

The DLR elevated track. Rainham Marshes at dusk. Canning Town car park at midnight. The Olympic Park, where something stands still in a way that nothing alive stands still, and Scarlet doesn't run, because running would mean she'd have to admit what she'd seen.

She doesn't run. She looks back.

Bloodwork is the first book in the London Flux series. The city has a second layer. A rare few can feel it. Scarlet is one of them, and it's going to cost her more than she knows.