The Butterfly Queen (The Thief of Edorn)

Edorn is a city where cruel souls are glorified, and the kind are victims. It is a place where only the rich have electricity, and the poor must live by lamplight. By sundown, monsters called Soul Eaters run amuck and attack every tardy straggler in sight. For the most part, their ridiculously colored hair deters the ones smart enough to flee their sight, but their transformer, the Accuser, owns the city.Ash is nothing but a thief for a manipulative woman named Mabe. By day she knicks wallets to cover her kid sister’s stay, and by night, she transforms into a waitress for Mabe’s Tavern. Every day is a fight to survive, and every day, Ash saves up to restore Kiki’s inheritance and rescue her. A ghostly voice from Ash’s past, which calls himself the Redeemer, eagerly encourages Ash to leave behind her life of crime, including Mabe. Rather than embrace his promises of peace, all she can think of is her found-sister’s future.On the wrong day, Ash pickpockets a wallet from Ekrin, a Soul Eater with silver hair that she mistakes for an elder of Edorn. He isn’t anything like she expects and even claims to hear the Redeemer’s voice himself. Together, they soon discover that Ash’s future is with the monsters she’ll soon call family, but the Redeemer has plans for Edorn, and the other Soul Eaters, which will undermine the terror and darkness the Accuser has woven within the city’s fabric.

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