

She is a secret even to herself, plagued by the sensation that she isn’t whole. Raised half in our world, half in ‘Elsewhere’, she has never understood Brimstone’s dark work – buying teeth from hunters and murderers – nor how she came into his keeping.

On the one hand, she’s a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague on the other, errand-girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest thing she has to family. In general, Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. ‘He never says please’, she sighed, but she gathered up her things. The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Publisher: Little, Brown (US) / Hodder & Stoughton (UK)
