DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE is a book unbounded by genre but located at a magical crossroads where THE PASSAGE meets PHILIP PULLMAN and TWILIGHT meets PAN'S LABYRINTH. Errand requiring immediate attention. Come. The note was on vellum; pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read the message. 'He never says please'; she sighed; but she gathered up her things. When Brimstone called; she always came. In general; Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand; she's a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague; on the other; errand-girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest thing she has to family. Raised half in our world; half in 'Elsewhere'; she has never understood Brimstone's dark work - buying teeth from hunters and murderers - nor how she came into his keeping. She is a secret even to herself; plagued by the sensation that she isn't whole. Now the doors to Elsewhere are closing; and Karou must choose between the safety of her human life and the dangers of a war-ravaged world that may hold the answers she has always sought. 'Remarkable and beautifully written . . . The opening volume of a truly original trilogy.' GUARDIAN