Description

A shy, young woman and her deeply unpleasant (and literally porcelain) sister team up to fight for their inheritance. In his newest left turn from Lovecraftian horror, Daryl Gregory (Spoonbenders) spins a dizzying yet poignant reminder to be nice to dolls--just in case.

Ruth Winslow is trying to save up enough money to finish college while looking after her her sister, Isabel--who happens to be a haunted doll. When an accident severely damages Isabel's porcelain body, the sisters have to find the only woman who can fix her, the fearsome witch known as La Fabricante: the Dollmaker.

The sisters head to Marseille, where they take on Le Clan: Chiffon, a red-headed, unkillable assassin; a collection of angry haunted dolls; plus a pair of demons--one a cigarette-smoking crow, the other a black cat--and their human familiars.

Along the way, the sisters learn that they've been lied to their entire lives. Their mother wasn't just a homemaker who died in a car accident, she was a legendary enforcer in the Le Clan des Sorcières.

While Ruth has to come out of her shell and deal with her own latent powers, Isabel has to grow up in a body that can't grow. Together they'll have to outwit and outfight everyone to claim their birthright.