Description: 'Alison Sinclair's writing is addictive and elegant.'-LANE ROBINS, Author of MALEDICTEFor the Darkborn, sunlight kills. For the Lightborn, darkness is fatal. Living under a centuries-old curse, the Darkborn and the Lightborn share the city of Minhorne, coexisting in an uneasy equilibrium but never interacting.When Balthasar Hearne, Darkborn physician,  finds a pregnant fugitive on his doorstep just before sunrise, he has no choice but to take her in.  Tercelle Amberley's betrothed is a powerful Darkborn nobleman, but her illicit lover came to her through the daytime.  When she gives birth to twin boys, Balthasar realizes that they can see-something unheard of among the Darkborn.Two days after the birth, men arrive in search of the children.  Balthasar is saved only by the intervention of his Lightborn neighbour-and healed by the hands of his wife, Telmaine.  Soon Balthasar finds himself drawn deeper into a web of political intrigue and magical attacks as an ancient enemy of both Darkbo...

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