In a nation on the brink of war a young art students starcrossed love begins to bloom in the first book of the New York Times bestselling epic fantasy trilogy by awardwinning author Laini Taylor. 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 devils 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 otherworldly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real shes 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 shes about to find out. When one of the strangers beautiful haunted Akiva fixes his firecolored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh the result is blood and starlight secrets unveiled and a starcrossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself show more