256 pages |Trade Paperback

Winner of the Andre Norton Award

Return toNew York Timesbestselling author Holly Blacks enthralling realm of faerie in the second Modern Faerie Tales novel, where danger and magic come hand-in-hand in the dark underground of New York City.

When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York, shes trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the citys labyrinthine subway system. But theres something eerily beguiling about Vals new friends that sets her on edge.

When Val is talked into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature, she must strike a bargain to make it out with her life intact. Now drawn into a world she never knew existed, Val finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.