The House of Shattered Wings

Publisher Marketing: Multi-award-winning author Aliette de Bodard brings her story of the War in Heaven to Paris, igniting the City of Light in a fantasy of divine power and deep conspiracy. In the late twentieth century, the streets of Paris are lined with haunted ruins. The Great Magicians War left a trail of devastation in its wake. The "grand magasins" have been reduced to piles of debris, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine has turned black with ashes and rubble and the remnants of the spells that tore the city apart. But those that survived still retain their irrepressible appetite for novelty and distraction, and the great houses still vie for dominion over France s once-grand capital. Once the most powerful and formidable, House Silverspires now lies in disarray. Its magic is ailing; its founder, Morningstar, has been missing for decades; and now something from the shadows stalks its people inside their very own walls. Within the house, three very different people must come together: a naive but powerful fallen angel, an alchemist with a self-destructive addiction, and a resentful young man wielding spells of unknown origin. They may be Silverspires salvation or the architects of its last, irreversible fall. And if Silverspires falls, so may the city itself." Review Citations: Romantic Times 08/01/2015 pg. 52 (EAN 9780451477385, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 07/13/2015 (EAN 9780451477385, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 08/01/2015 pg. 65 (EAN 9780451477385, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Contributor Bio:  Bodard, Aliette De Aliette de Bodard is an award-winning author. She is a half-French, half-Vietnamese computer and history geek who lives in Paris and has a special interest in ancient non-Western civilizations, particularly those of Vietnam, China, and Mesoamerica.