Publisher's Synopsis
Trudchen grew up hearing Odettes stories of their monster-slaying mother and a magicians curse. But now that Trus older, shes starting to wonder if her older sisters tales were just comforting lies, especially because theres nothing fantastic about her own lifepermanently disabled and in constant pain from childhood polio.
In 1909, after a two-year absence, Od reappears with a suitcase supposedly full of weapons and a promise to rescue Tru from the monsters on their way to attack her. But its Od who seems haunted by something. And when the sisters search for their mother leads them to a face-off with the Leeds Devil, a nightmarish beast thats wreaking havoc in the Mid-Atlantic states, Tru discovers the peculiar possibility that she and her sisterdespite their dark pasts and ordinary appearancesmight, indeed, have magic after all.
In 1909, after a two-year absence, Od reappears with a suitcase supposedly full of weapons and a promise to rescue Tru from the monsters on their way to attack her. But its Od who seems haunted by something. And when the sisters search for their mother leads them to a face-off with the Leeds Devil, a nightmarish beast thats wreaking havoc in the Mid-Atlantic states, Tru discovers the peculiar possibility that she and her sisterdespite their dark pasts and ordinary appearancesmight, indeed, have magic after all.
