I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. Below me, the bronze statue of Colonel Wallingford makes me realize I’m seeing the quad from the peak of Smythe Hall, my dorm. For instance, my unconscious appears to be steering me straight to an early grave.Ībove me are stars. It wants to take you places you never agreed to go. It wants you to do things you did not consent to do. My heart thunders.īeing a sleepwalker is being at war with your unconscious. The dream still clings to me, like cobwebs of memory. Looking dizzily down, I suck in a breath of icy air. I wake barefoot, teetering on the cold tiles of a slate roof. I spring up out of my bed and grab for her, but she’s too lean and too quick. But the cat is carrying it away in her mouth, padding toward a partially ajar door.
In the dream, my tongue is a wriggling red thing, mouse-size and wet. There’s no pain, only a sense of overwhelming, suffocating panic.
It’s leaning over me, inhaling as if it’s trying to suck the breath from my lungs. I’M DREAMING OF A cat with bone white fur. To find the truth, Cassel will have to out-con the conmen.įor all the fictional cats I’ve killed in other books. As Cassel begins to suspect he’s an unwitting pawn in a huge con game, he must unravel his past, and his memories.
He’s noticing other disturbing things, too, including the strange behavior of his two older brothers, who are keeping secrets from him. But his facade starts to crumble when he finds himself sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. He doesn’t have magic, so he’s an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family-except for the small detail that he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago.Ĭassel has carefully built up a facade of normalcy, blending into the crowd. Many become mobsters and con artists, but not Cassel. And since curse work is illegal, they’re also all criminals. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black comes the “dangerously, darkly gorgeous” (Cassandra Clare) Curse Workers trilogy, now together in one beautiful bind-up!Ĭassel Sharpe comes from a family of curse workers, people who have the power to change emotions, memories, and luck with the slightest touch of their hands.
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