The City's Son by Tom Pollock

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Beth Bradley is running away.  Beth is running from her distant father and traitorous best friend; she is also running towards something else, a change at a better life.  More specifically, Filius, the crown prince of London's underworld.  The underworld where glassy spiders can steal voices and nursemaids form from piles of garbage.  Electricity dances and railwraiths terrorize the trains in the underworld.

Beth and Filius travel across the prince's realm, gathering an army to battle Filius' mother's greatest foe.  Reach, the god of demolition, is after Filius.  When Beth's best friend is taken, and her (Beth's) father joins the ranks of Filius' army while searching for his daughter, Beth must choose between her new life in the underworld, or the old life she left behind.

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