<p><b>A #1 International Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of February 2024 * An IndieNext Pick </b><br> <br> <br> <br> "A dark dream of a novel...that feels both timeless and original. Enjoy--and also beware. This fairy tale is deadly." --<b>Laini Taylor</b><br> <br> <br> <br> "A story as darkly wondrous as midnight. Enthralling to the last page." --<b>Shelley Parker-Chan</b><br> <br> <br> <br> "A dark, gorgeous tale of curses, gods and monsters." --<b>Sangu Mandanna</b><br> <br> <br> <br> <i><b>A curse can be many things. For the Everlys, it begins with stardust.</b></i><br> <br> <br> <br> For centuries, the Everlys have seen their best and brightest disappear, taken as punishment for a crime no one remembers, for a purpose no one understands. Their tormentor, a woman named Penelope, never ages, never grows sick - and never forgives a debt.<br> <br> <br> <br> Violet Everly was a child when her mother, Marianne, left on a stormy night, determined to break the curse. When Marianne never returns, Penelope issues an ultimatum: Violet has ten years to find her mother, or she will take Marianne's place. <br> <br> <br> <br> Her hunt leads her into a seductive magical underworld of power-hungry scholars, fickle gods and monsters bent on revenge. And into the path of Penelope's quiet assistant, Aleksander, who Violet knows cannot be trusted - and yet to whom she finds herself undeniably drawn.<br> <br> <br> <br> With her time running out, Violet will travel the edges of the world to find Marianne and the key to the city of stardust, where the Everly story began.<br> <br> <br> <br> <b>Slip into a lush world of magic, stardust, and monsters in this spellbinding standalone fantasy from debut author Georgia Summers.</b></p>