From award-winning,New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi comes her groundbreaking contemporary fantasy debut–a novel in verse based on Caribbean folklore–about the power of inherited magic and the price we must pay to live the life we yearn for. Fifteen-year-old Marisol is the daughter of a soucouyant. Every new moonshe sheds her skin like the many women before hershifting into a fireball witch who must fly into the night and slowly sip from the lives of others to sustain her own. But Brooklyn is no place for fireball witches with all its bright lightsshut windowsand bolt-locked doors…. While Marisol hoped they would leave their old traditions behind when they emigrated from the islandsshe knows this will never happen while she remains ensnared by the one person who keeps her chained to her magical past–her mother. Seventeen-year-old Genevieve is the daughter of a college professor and a newly minted older half sister of twins. Her worsening skin condition and the babies’ constant wailing keep her up at nightwhen she stares at the dark sky with a deep longing to inhale it all. She hopes to quench the hunger that gnaws at herone that seems to reach for some memory of her estranged mother. When a new nanny arrives to help with the twinsa family secret connecting her to Marisol is revealedand Gen begins to find answers to questions she hasn’t even thought to ask. But the girls soon discover that the very skin keeping their flames locked beneath the surface may be more explosive to the relationships around them than any ancient magic.