Marty Volk has a guardian angel. For the past five years, since he was twelve years old, it has saved Marty whenever he's been in danger. And from a single darkened glimpse one night on the streets of London, he thinks it's his long-lost sister Rose?ten years older than him, beautiful, intelligent . . . and deceased. For Rose has become a creature of legend that thrives, along with her undead companions, in the shadows of the human world . . . one who tenaciously holds on to her new existence, and who will do anything to survive. . . .

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Tim Lebbon is the New York Times bestselling horror, dark fantasy, and thriller author of Secret Lives of the Dead, Eden, Coldbrook, The Silence (now a Netflix original film starring Stanley Tucci and Kiernan Shipka), and the Relics trilogy. He has also written many acclaimed movie novelizations and tie-ins, including for Star Wars, Alien, Predator, Hellboy, Firefly, and 30 Days of Night. Tim has won a World Fantasy Award, four British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, a Shocker Award, a Dragon Award, and a Scribe Award, and has also been a finalist for the International Horror Guild Award. He lives with his family in Wales, United Kingdom.