
All August wants is to be human, as good-hearted as his own father, to play a bigger role in protecting the innocent-but he’s one of the monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the humans pay for his protection. Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city-a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters.


In this dark urban fantasy from author Victoria Schwab , a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains-and friends or enemies-with the future of their home at stake. There’s no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. “It was a cruel trick of the universe, thought August, that he only felt human after doing something monstrous.”
