From the author of New York Times bestseller House of Hollow comes a darkly seductive witchy thriller where, though both men and demons lurk in shadows, girls refuse to go quietly into the night.
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Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . .
Zara Jones believes in magic because the alternative is too painful to considerтАФthat her murdered sister is gone forever and there is nothing she can do about it. Rather than grieving and moving on, Zara decides she will do whatever it takes to claw her sister back from the graveтАФeven trading in the occult.
Jude Wolf may be the daughter of a billionaire, but she is also undeniably cursed. After a deal with a demon went horribly wrong, her soul has been slowly turning necrotic. ItтАЩs a miserable existence marred by pain, sickness, and monstrous things that taunt her in the night. Now that sheтАЩs glimpsed whatтАЩs beyond the veil, JudeтАЩs desperate to ямБnd someone to undo the damage sheтАЩs done to herself.
Enter Emer Byrne, an orphaned witch with a dark past and a deadly power, a.k.a. the solution to both ZaraтАЩs and JudeтАЩs problems. Though Emer lives a hardscrabble life, she gives away her most valuable assetтАФher invocationsтАФto women in desperate situations who are willing to sacriямБce a piece of their soul in exchange for a scrap of power. Zara and Jude are willing, but they ямБrst have to ямБnd Emer.
When EmerтАЩs clients start turning up dead all over London, a vital clue leads Zara and Jude right to her. If a serial killer is targeting her clients, Emer wants to know whyтАФand to stop them. She strikes a tenuous alliance with Zara and Jude to hunt a killer before they are next on his list, even if she canтАЩt give them in return what Zara and Jude want most: a sister and a soul.