Trudchen grew up hearing Odettes stories of a monster slaying and a magicians curse. But now that Trus older, shes starting to wonder if her older sisters tales were just comforting lies, especially because theres nothing fantastic about her own lifepermanently injured and in constant pain from a childhood illness. In 1909, after a two-year absence, Od reappears with a suitcase full of weapons and a promise to rescue Tru from the monsters on their way to attack her. But its Od who seems haunted by something. And when the sisters search for their mother leads them to a face-off with the Leeds Devil, a nightmarish beast thats wreaking havoc in the mid-Atlantic states, Tru discovers the peculiar possibility that she and her sisterdespite their dark pasts and ordinary appearancesmight indeed have magic after all.

 

 

There are 368 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2019 by Abrams .

Cat Winters was born and raised near Disneyland in Southern California. She is the creator of suburbanvampire. blogspot. com and she runs corsetsandcutlasses. wordpress. com, a group blog featuring authors of YA historical fiction.