Bram Stoker Award: First Novel nominee (1999). British Fantasy Award: Best First Novel nominee (1998). International Horror Guild Award: Best First Novel winner (1998). Barnes and Noble Maiden Voyage Award: Best First Novel winner (1998).
From the award-winning author of Daughter of Hounds
Spyder Baxter is the patron saint of the alienated and lost. She invites them into her mesmerizing world of ritual and ceremony, blood and fire... a realm of vengeful gods, of exiled spirits harboring the dark secrets of Hell – and the darker secrets of Heaven. But is she their guardian angel – or a much more terrifying force sent not to redeem, but to destroy?
Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (born 1964) is the author of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including ten novels; many comic books; and more than two hundred published short stories, novellas, and vignettes. She is also the author of scientific papers in the field of paleontology. Caitlín R. Kiernan also writes under the pseudonym of [author_link_7082].
