A chilling, compelling mystery from the internationally bestselling
author of The Shadow of the Wind.
When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape
House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of
the place--its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors. There, she meets a
local boy named Ishmael, and the two soon fall in love. But a dark plot
is about to unfold involving a reclusive toymaker who lives in a
gigantic mansion filled with mechanical beings and shadows of the past.
As strange lights shine through the fog surrounding a small, barren
island, Irene's younger brother dreams of a dark creature hidden deep in
the forest. And when a young girl is found murdered, her body at the end
of a path torn through the woods by a monstrous, inhuman force, Irene
and Ishmael wonder--has a demonic presence been unleashed on the
inhabitants of Cape House? Together, they'll have to survive the most
terrifying summer of their lives.