She was supposed to hunt monsters. Instead, she fell in love with one. For six years, Seraphina Vale has worn black - mourning the woman she lost in a fire that she couldn't stop. She has buried her grief in science, in duty, in the ancient oath that binds her family to hunt monsters. Her brother Phineas, drowns his own pain in opium and other vices. And together they keep the streets of 1890's London safe from what lurks in the dark. Then a werewolf tears through a family, and Seraphina finds the survivor; Violet, a seamstress whose life was destroyed in one night. Violet should be dead, instead she has become the very thing that the Vale twins hunt. And instead of killing her, she brings her home. What begins as a scientific curiosity becomes something far more dangerous: a bond neither of them expected and a love that forces Seraphina to question everything - her oath, her family, her brother and the line between monsters and humans. Meanwhile, in the very heart of London society, a cult called the Hollows has begun building a following. Preaching that monsters are holy and humanity is God's mistake. Seraphina must choose: the duty she was born into, or the woman she was never meant to love.
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