Daughter of Smoke & Bone

In a nation approaching war, a young art student's star-crossed love begins to develop in the first book of the New York Times bestselling epic fantasy trilogy by Laini Taylor. Black handprints are appearing on doorways around the world, scorched there by winged strangers who have entered through a slit in the sky. In a dark shop, a supply of human teeth has grown dangerously low. In the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war. Karou fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, disappears on mysterious errands, speaks many languages—not all of them human—and has bright blue hair that grows naturally from her head. She is haunted by questions about her own identity. When she encounters one of the strangers—beautiful and haunted Akiva—in an alley in Marrakesh, the encounter results in blood and starlight, unveiled secrets, and a star-crossed love rooted in a violent past. The question remains whether Karou will survive learning the truth about herself.