Karou has disliked Kaz ever since their relationship ended, though Kaz continues to tease her. During her walk, she is startled by her ex-boyfriend Kazimir Andrasko, who is starting 'vampire tours' in the city.

On a mundane January day in the Czech city of Prague, Karou makes her way to school at the Art Lyceum of Bohemia. Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself? įrom master storyteller and National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor comes a sweeping a modern fantasy about a forbidden love, an ancient and epic battle, and hope for a world remade. 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. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out. 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. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grows dangerously low.Īnd in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war. Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.

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