NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A decadently dark gothic fantasy for readers who love “haunting atmospheres, morally tangled characters, and stories where love becomes doom” (Booklist, starred review), the first in a duology from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning and Lady MacbethThis first edition hardcover features designed sprayed edges and full-color illustrated endpapers—while supplies last!“Gorgeously gruesome . . . reads like the gory bones of a forgotten folktale.”—Jacqueline Carey, New York Times bestselling author of the Kushiel’s Legacy seriesOnce there was an island where the dead walked the earth, and seven noble houses ruled by the arcane secrets of necromancy.A conqueror’s blade brought them low, burning their libraries, killing their lords, and extinguishing their eldritch magic.But defiant against the new order stands the House of Teeth and its last living members: beautiful Marozia, the heiress to the House, and her cousin, the uncanny Lady Ag
