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1883. Agrigento, Sicily. A city of spires and now broken hopes and bodies
With the orsine destroyed, Cairndale lies in ruins, and Marlowe has vanished. His only chance of rescue lies in a fabled second orsine long-hidden, thought lost - which might not even exist.
But when a body is discovered in the shadow of Cairndale, Charlie and the Talents realize there is even more at stake than they''d feared. For a new drughr has arisen, ferocious, horned, seemingly able to move in their world at will and it is not alone. A malevolent figure, known only as the Abbess, desires the dust for her own ends. And deep in the world of the dead, a terrible evil stirs - an evil which the corrupted dust just might hold the secret to reviving, or destroying forever.
So the dark journey begun in Ordinary Monsters surges forward, from the sinister underworld of the London exiles, to the roar of the streetmarkets in nineteenth-century Alexandria, to the sunlit silences of the Dalmati
