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|title=Runemarks

|author=Joanne Harris

|isbn=978-0385611305

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Maddy Smith was born five hundred years after the end of the world. The new order is, well, orderly. Magic is forbidden. Imagination is frowned upon. Nobody admits to dreaming. The old gods are gone and in their place the Order is bringing, well, order. Unfortunately for Maddy, she was born with a ruinmark; runes bring ruin in this new - ''orderly'' - era, you see. So Maddy can do magic. And, in secret, she enjoys doing, even if it is just to keep a few pesky goblins out of the cellar. Maddy and her ruinmark aren't very popular though, and Maddy's only friend is One-Eye, an Outlander trader who comes to town just once a year. This year, he wants Maddy to open Red Horse Hill and retrieve a relic from the old days. And when she does so, all hell breaks loose and we finally get to meet the Aesir and the Vanir themselves. The old Norse gods are abroad again, and so are is their rune magic, and they're pitted against the Order, which has some magic of its own.