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From the bestselling author of The Boy Who Drew Monsters and The Stolen Child comes a modern take on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice-a suspenseful tale of romance and enchantment In the Old City of Quebec, Kay Harper falls in love with a puppet in the window of the Quatre Mains, a toy shop that is never open. She is spending her summer working as an acrobat with the cirque while her husband, Theo, is translating a biography of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Late one night, Kay fears someone is following her home. Surprised to see that the lights of the toy shop are on and the door is open, she takes shelter inside. The next morning Theo wakes up to discover his wife is missing. Under police suspicion and frantic about her disappearance, he obsessively searches the streets of the Old City. Meanwhile, Kay has been transformed into a puppet and is now a prisoner of the back room of the Quatre Mains, trapped with an odd assemblage of puppets from all over the world who can only come alive between the hours of midnight and dawn. The only way she can return to the human world is if Theo can find her and recognize her in her new form. So begins a dual odyssey of a husband determined to find his wife and of a woman trapped in a magical world where her life is not her own.

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An engrossing novel of love, fancy, and enchantment. -- Shelf Awareness Donohue adeptly blends reality and fantasy...Donahue's novel examines how refusing to embrace the present and struggling to escape unavoidable circumstances can alter one's life forever. -- Publishers Weekly Donohue's masterpiece of psychological horror...is a tale of true love and the beauty of the mechanics of motion all wrapped up in one awesomely creep-tastic package. -- Booklist (starred review) Fascinatingly bizarre...Patterned after the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, this dark tale embodies relationships, memory, choice, and consequences. -- Library Journal Full of glorious detail. -- New York Journal of Books Set in the Old City of Quebec...Donohue's magical blend of love story, myth, and supernatural suspense makes this a chilling and unforgettable read. -- BookPage

An engrossing novel of love, fancy, and enchantment. -- Shelf Awareness Set in the Old City of Quebec...Donohue's magical blend of love story, myth, and supernatural suspense makes this a chilling and unforgettable read. -- BookPage Fascinatingly bizarre...Patterned after the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, this dark tale embodies relationships, memory, choice, and consequences. -- Library Journal Donohue adeptly blends reality and fantasy...Donahue's novel examines how refusing to embrace the present and struggling to escape unavoidable circumstances can alter one's life forever. -- Publishers Weekly Donohue's masterpiece of psychological horror...is a tale of true love and the beauty of the mechanics of motion all wrapped up in one awesomely creep-tastic package. -- Booklist (starred review) Full of glorious detail. -- New York Journal of Books

Full of glorious detail. -- New York Journal of Books Donohue's masterpiece of psychological horror...is a tale of true love and the beauty of the mechanics of motion all wrapped up in one awesomely creep-tastic package. -- Booklist (starred review) Donohue adeptly blends reality and fantasy...Donahue's novel examines how refusing to embrace the present and struggling to escape unavoidable circumstances can alter one's life forever. -- Publishers Weekly Fascinatingly bizarre...Patterned after the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, this dark tale embodies relationships, memory, choice, and consequences. -- Library Journal Set in the Old City of Quebec...Donohue's magical blend of love story, myth, and supernatural suspense makes this a chilling and unforgettable read. -- BookPage An engrossing novel of love, fancy, and enchantment. -- Shelf Awareness

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Keith Donohue is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Stolen Child, The Angels of Destruction, and Centuries of June. His work has been translated into two dozen languages, and his articles have appeared in the New York Times and Washington Post, among other publications. A graduate of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Donohue also holds a PhD in English from the Catholic University of America. He lives in Maryland. Bronson Pinchot, an Audie Award-winning narrator and Audible's Narrator of the Year for 2010, received his education at Yale University, which filled out what he had already received at his mother's knee in the all-important areas of Shakespeare, Greek art and architecture, and the Italian Renaissance. He restores Greek Revival buildings and appears in television, film, and on stage whenever the pilasters and entablatures overwhelm him.

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