2009 Silver Birch Award Winner
2009 Red Maple Award Shortlisted
2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens Commended
2008 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award Longlisted

For Tara and her brother, Suraj, the year their mother and grandfather fled the village of Morni in the middle of the night has been a nightmare. Their new stepmother is cruel and deceptive, and the village itself is lacking a healer. What s more, men of the village have been disappearing, often returning in a strange, altered form.

When a new healer, Zarku, a mysterious man with a third...