From the author of The Court of the Air and The Kingdom Beyond the Waves comes a thrilling new adventure set in the same Victorian-style world. Perfect for fans of Philip Pullman and Susanna Clarke.
Born into captivity as a product of the Royal Breeding House, friendless orphan Purity Drake suddenly finds herself on the run with a foreign vagrant from the North after accidentally killing one of her guards.
Her strange rescuer claims he is on the run himself from terrible forces who mean to enslave the Kingdom of Jackals as they conquered his own nation. Purity doubts his story, until reports begin to filter through from Jackals’ neighbours of the terrible Army of Shadows, marching across the continent and sweepign all before them.
But there’s more to Purity than meets the eye. As Jackals girds itself for war against an army of near-unkillable beasts serving an ancient evil with a terrible secret, it soon becomes clear that their only hope is a strange little royalist girl and the last, desperate plan of an escaped slave.
- ISBN10 0007232225
- ISBN13 9780007232222
- Publish Date 5 February 2009 (first published 1 January 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 November 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint HarperVoyager
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 464
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk