• What if being a librarian was the most dangerous job in the world?Worldsoul, a great city that forms a nexus point between Earth and the manydimensions known as the Liminality, is a place where old stories gather, whereforgotten legends come to fade and die - or to flourish and rise again.Until recently, Worldsoul has been governed by the Skein, but they have gonemissing and no one knows why. The city is also being attacked with lethalflower-bombs from an unknown enemy. Mercy Fane and her fellow Librarians aredoing their best to maintain the Library, but...things...keep breakingout of ancient texts and legends are escaping into the city. Mercy must pursueone such dangerous creature. She turns to Shadow, an alchemist, for aid, butShadow - inadvertently possessed by an ifrit - has a perilous questof her own to undertake.

"What if being a librarian was the most dangerous job in the world?"--Cover.