the demon catchers of milan by kat beyer

In the tradition of Memento and Inception comes a thrilling and scary young adult novel about blurred reality where characters in a story find that a deadly and horrifying world exists in the space between the written lines.

Even though she can hear his thoughts, even though she saved his life, all she knows for certain is he’d rather see her dead than help her.īut together, the pair will form an indomitable friendship, and rise to challenge the might of an empire. Accompanying her father on the Shōgun’s hunt, she finds herself stranded: a young woman alone in Shima’s last wilderness, with only a furious, crippled thunder tiger for company. Yukiko is a child of the Fox clan, possessed of a talent that if discovered, would see her executed by the Lotus Guild. But any fool knows the beasts have been extinct for more than a century, and the price of failing the Shōgun is death. The hunters of Shima’s imperial court are charged by their Shōgun to capture a thunder tiger – a legendary creature, half-eagle, half-tiger.

The skies are red as blood, the land is choked with toxic pollution, and the great spirit animals that once roamed its wilds have departed forever. A DYING LAND The Shima Imperium verges on the brink of environmental collapse an island nation once rich in tradition and myth, now decimated by clockwork industrialization and the machine-worshipers of the Lotus Guild.

The demon catchers of milan by kat beyer