When Among Crows

nStep into a city where monsters feast on human emotions, knights split their souls to make their weapons, and witches always take more than they give. n nPain is Dymitr's calling. To slay the monsters he's been raised to kill, he had to split his soul in half to make a sword from his own spine. Every time he draws it, he gets blood on his hands. n nPain is Ala's inheritance. When her mother died, a family curse to witness horrors committed by the Holy Order was passed onto her. The curse will claim her life, as it did her mother's, unless she can find a cure. n nOne fateful night in Chicago, Dymitr comes to Ala with a bargain: her help in finding the legendary witch Baba Jaga in exchange for an enchanted flower that just might cure her. Desperate, and unaware of what Dymitr really is, Ala agrees. n nBut they only have one day before the flower dies . . . and Ala's hopes of breaking the curse along with it. n nLovely, lush, and full of otherworldly longing, this modern fairy tale is Roth at her most imaginative and ethereal.--OLIVIE BLAKE, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Sixn