THERE WILL BE BLOOD. "Curthroat competition and eldritch horrors —of both the human and monstrous kind— collide headfirst in this GLORIOUSLY HAUNTING AND DARKLY THRILLING NOVEL. -AIDEN THOMAS, New York Times-bestselling author of Cemetery Boys and The Sunbearer Trials "Shea's writing is as graceful as the dancers in their book and WILL LEAVE READERS SCREAMING FOR MORE BLOOD." -TRANG THaNH TrAN, New York Times-bestselling author of She Is a Haunting "JAMISON SHEA HAS CEMENTED THEMSELF AS A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH-and reminds us that when your enemies go low, you can always bury them there." -ANDREW JOSEPH WHITE, New York Times-bestselling author of Hell Followed With Us "A sinister, delicious dive into A TRULY CAPTIVATING VILLAIN ORIGIN STORY. In lyrical prose and a cutting pace, Shea explores the ways power corrupts and the way racist, elitist systems push us to hunger for it." -COURTNEY GoULD, award-winning author of The Dead and the Dark "BRUTAL AND BEAUTIFUL, this book will drag you through the bloodied depths of fierce ambition and into a raw, untethered world of chaos." -LYNDALL CLIPSTONE, author of the World at the Lake's Edge duology and Unholy Terrors