Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.

In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.

And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.

Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out.

When one of the strangers--beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?

莱尼·泰勒

（Laini Taylor）

美国畅销书作家，2009年美国国家图书奖银奖得主。她的作品还包括《三次轻吻》（Lip Touch：three times）、《黑暗使者》（Blackbringer）和《丝绸歌手》（Silksinger）。她自言在创作过程中，最享受的是对语言的精雕细琢，好像在写诗，而不是在写小说。《科克斯书评》评论道：“她的书应位居每位魔幻故事爱好者必读书单的前两位。”

她还拥有自己的手工礼品制造线“Laini’s Ladies”，其产品已经遍布美国和加拿大成千上万的商店。