Everyone is not as they seem in this fantasy novel, replete with war,
witchcraft and secrets.
Christophor Morden lives by night. His day-brother, Alexsander, knows
only the sun. They are two souls in a single body, in a world where
identities change with the rising and setting of the sun.
Night-brother or day-sister, one never sees the light, the other knows
nothing of the night. Early one evening, Christophor is roused by a call
to the city prison. A prisoner has torn his eyes out and cannot say why.
Yet worse: in the sockets that once held his eyes, teeth are growing.
The police suspect the supernatural, so Christophor, a member of the
king's special inspectorate, is charged with finding the witch
responsible. Night-by-night, Christophor's investigation leads him ever
further from home, toward a backwards village on the far edge of the
kingdom. But the closer he gets to the truth, the more his day-brother's
actions frustrate him.
Who is Alexsander protecting? What does he not want Christophor to
discover? And all the while, an ancient and apocalyptic ritual creeps
closer to completion...
