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Lamplighter is a teen fiction novel by D.M. Cornish. And now orphan Rossmund Bookchild has been swarn into the Emperors service as a Lamplighter. His civil duty is to now to light lamps along the Emperor’s highway and to guard the travelers from the fierce Bogles that lives ferel. Rossmund seems to have problems with his height and being to meek. His lonleyness does not stop no matter how hard he tries.

But when a young girl a member of a suspiciously regarded society of women Teratologists (A.K.A monster hunters) is forced upon the lamplighters for training. Rossmund now may not be the most disliked person around and he begins to make new friends, but with friends comes enemies. And now he is finding himself coming closer and closer to meet a terrible fate, far beyond his fears.

Book one: Foundling is a teen fiction book by D.M. Cornish. Killing a monster was the greatest thing and anybody who had done so had a Tattoo made from the monsters blood. For about a 100 years the civilians of Half-continent lived in the constant argument with the monsters of the wild and some learned the art of teratology (A.K.A monster hunting). It is even to the point they are surgically altering themselves.

Being raised in Madame’s Opera estimable marine society for foundling Girls and Boys is very sheltering from the dangers of the world. But till a man that has strange red and pale blue eyes comes and tries to recruit him for the Emperor. Now this world has gone from just a school to serving a beautiful Emperor and an Teratologist who can shoot electricity out of her body and cause lightning from the sky’s and learns that some people can be lethal.