* National Jewish Book Award Winner * Green Mountain Book Award Nominee * Sydney Taylor Book
Award Winner * In this thrilling paranormal YA romance debut steeped in folklore two
estries—owl-shifting female vampires from Jewish tradition—face New York's monstrous underworld
to save the girl one of them loves with help from the boy one of them fears before they are
all of them lost forever. Clara loves rules. Rules are what have kept her and her sister
Molly alive—or rather undead—for over a century. Work their historic movie theater by day.
Shift into an owl under the cover of night. Feed on men in secret. And never fall in love.
Molly is in love. And she’s tired of keeping her girlfriend Anat a secret. If Clara won’t
agree to bend their rules a little then she will bend them herself. Boaz is cursed. He can’t
walk two city blocks without being cornered by something undead. At least at work at the
theater he gets to flirt with Clara wishing she would like him back. When Anat vanishes and
New York’s monstrous underworld emerges from the shadows Clara suspects Boaz their annoyingly
cute box office attendant might be behind it all. But if they are to find Anat they will need
to work together to face demons and the hungers they would sooner bury. Clara will have to
break all her rules—of love of life and of death itself—before her rules break everyone she
loves. In this stand-alone debut A. R. Vishny interweaves mystery romance and lore to create
an unputdownable story about those who have kept to the shadows for far too long.
