<h4><em>In a hellish city the fate of a young boy rests on the very thing he fears most...</em></h4><p style=orphans: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px;>Robbed of his childhood by tragedy and betrayal and forced onto the streets only fury makes young Ninian feel whole - and in a world of gangs and fae Ninian is more than willing to fight for his life.</p><p style=orphans: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px;>But it doesn't take much to topple a life which is already balanced on the edge of a knife. And by the time a desperate Ninian realizes he's crossed the wrong person it is much <em>much</em> too late.</p><p style=orphans: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px;>In his frantic struggle to right his collapsing world Ninian's furious bloody efforts are dredging up history he'd rather forget - the past is tired of being held at bay - and even fighting cannot protect Ninian from himself.</p><p style=orphans: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px;>So when he meets a crimson-eyed stranger a boy so broken he refuses even to speak Ninian does not believe he has the capacity to care.</p><p style=orphans: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px;>He is wrong.</p><p style=orphans: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px;>And that will change <em>everything...</em></p>