Tara, a trouble-shooter for Abracadabra Incorporated, shuts down black magic all over the world. A dagger with dangerous magic leads her to a small French shop, in business for 900 years. Something has corrupted the shop, something dark and evil, something stronger than Tara. Something she must face alone...

An Abracadabra Incorporated story.

"Like early Ray Bradbury, Rusch has the ability to switch on a universal dark."

—the Times of London

"A joy of clarity and lyricism. [Rusch] is a new breed of writer: a Renaissance woman."

—Charles de Lint

"[Rusch's] short fiction is golden."

—The Kansas City Star

Award-winning, bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch has published books under many names and in many genres. Her fantasy novels about the Fey have been published all over the world, and were recently rereleased in the United States as audio books by Audible.com. She has won the World Fantasy Award and is the former editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine. She also writes fantasy novels under the name Kristine Grayson. For more information on her work, go to kristinekathrynrusch.com.