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?
