Feelings can be deadly. Good thing she’s into the dead. A lush & lyrical gothic-dystopian YA Fantasy of stolen choices, eldritch horrors & sisterhood beyond the grave. Haunted outcast Cole allows herself one (1) emotion and it’s ‘terror of being found out.’ In the City of Nightmares, human contact is forbidden and the slightest willfulness or sign of inner life can draw down ravening horrors. But the weight of her shameful secret obsession only grows when a dangerously tempting encounter with a tattooed stranger entangles Cole and her snarky ghostly bestie in a deadly conspiracy. Hunted for what she knows—and what she doesn’t yet even suspect—Cole scales the austere heights of the repressive Tower of Refuge and scours the debauched depths of carnivalesque underground club Freedom for allies. But with mysterious unseen threads tugging her into gruesome visions of the monster-taken and absolutely zero practice in making friends (much less drumming up a revolution) Cole’s prospects aren’t looking up. Can she untangle the most earth-shattering secret of all, accept her forbidden feelings, and lay to rest the ghosts of her past in time to escape a bloody end? An award-winning series starter for fans of post-climate-collapse dystopias, monsters-and-magic urban fantasy, and genre-bending gothic dark fantasy with messy and morally grey characters, dreamweaving and threadwitchery, and intricate worldbuilding.