Lumsden Moss is an escaped thief and an unrepentant bibliophile with a long-standing desire to foist revenge on those who wronged him. When he returns to the City of Steps to steal a rare book from the man who sentenced him to prison, his actions attract the attention of the wrong people. As Moss scrambles to stay one step ahead of his pursuers, he falls in with Imogen, a nimble-fingered thief with a traveling bookcase filled with secrets. Stalked by a frightening witch-child and her nightmarish pet monster, Moss and Imogen soon realize the stolen book is the key to a long forgotten place, cursed and abandoned since the Purge. In a fantastic world, still recovering from a war where magic and technology are fused together, Moss and Imogen must decipher the mystery of their mutual pasts in order to illuminate the dark heart that still lurks on Nightjar Island.
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