A compelling standalone dark fantasy set in a gritty post-WWI Britain that has been overrun by the fae,from the award-winning author of Altered Carbon ΓÇ£One of my favorite books of the yeardestined to be a classic.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöTim LebbonNew York Times bestselling author of Secret Lives of The Dead The Great War was supposed to be the war to end all warsΓÇöand maybe it would have beenhad an even greaterotherworldly foe not risen to extinguish the conflict. Overnightas guns blazed in France and Flandersvillage after village in the quiet British countryside was swallowed by the Forest. And within the Forest lurk the HulduΓÇöan ancient fae racemonstrous in their inhumanitywho have decided that mankindΓÇÖs ascendency over the world can endure no longer. Enter Duncan Silver. Scarred by the warfueled by a rage deeper than the trenches in which he once foughtDuncan is determined to show the Huldu that the world is not theirs for the taking. Armed with a deadly iron knife and a cut-down trench gun filled with iron shotDuncan will stop at nothing to return the children the Huldu have stolen to the arms of their families. No matter how many Huldu he may have to slaughter along the way. But when he is hired by a mother to return her four-year-old daughterMiriamΓÇötaken by the Huldu six months past and replaced with a changelingΓÇöall hell breaks loose. Miriam is a pawn in a much bigger game for dominance than Duncan ever expectedand several long-buried secrets from his past are about to be violently resurrected.