V.E. Schwab is the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Gallant, the top
-10 Sunday Times bestselling The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, the acclaimed Shades
of Magic trilogy, Vicious and Vengeful and The Near Witch. Her short story, 'First
Kill', from the anthology Vampires Never Get Old, is now a Netflix series. When not
haunting Paris streets or trudging up English hillsides, she lives in Edinburgh,
Scotland, and is usually tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up
monsters.

Kate Harker and August Flynn's families rule opposite ends of Verity, a grisly
metropolis where violent acts summon real monsters: bloodsucking Malchai; clawing
Corsai; and soul-stealing Sunai. The truce that keeps the families at peace is
crumbling, and August is sent to spy on Kate. But when Harker's men try to kill her
and pin it on the Flynns, August and Kate find themselves running from both sides,
in a city where monsters are real...