Around the world, black hand prints 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 huled 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 thaton es - not all of therows out of her head that color Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out When beautiful, haunted Akiva fixes fiery 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?