The incredible final novel in Laini Taylor's breathtakingly imaginative Daughter of Smoke and Bone series

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war. This was not that world.

'A GRIPPING PAGE-TURNER' MARIE CLAIRE
'THRILLING' GLAMOUR

Common enemy, common cause.

By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz.

When Jael's brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people. And, perhaps, for themselves..

But there are bigger threats than Jael in the offing. A vicious queen is hunting Akiva, and, in the skies of Eretz, something is happening. Massive stains are spreading like bruises from horizon to horizon; the great winged storm hunters are gathering as if summoned, ceaselessly circling, and a deep sense of wrong pervades the world.

What power can bruise the sky?

From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in this thrilling finale to Laini Taylor's acclaimed trilogy.

PRAISE FOR LAINI TAYLOR

'I was utterly captivated' ¿¿¿¿¿
'Laini Taylor has easily become one of my favourite authors' ¿¿¿¿¿
'It's damn near perfect!' ¿¿¿¿¿
'The problem now is...What can I read next that will come anywhere close to these amazing books' ¿¿¿¿¿
'The prose sung between lyrical and whimsical but was always evocative and strangely beautiful' ¿¿¿¿¿

Thrilling.