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Beneath the surface city sprawls the Undercity, a labyrinth of breeding pens and stockyards where human beings called “berries” are raised, graded, and traded as livestock by the rat-folk and hog-folk that rule the depths. Rook, a tall dark-haired sire prized by breeder Charles, is dismissed as a quiet, empty-headed idiot. But behind his vacant stare lies a secret gift: his left eye lets him reach the dead and settle their unfinished business. When a tattered blue yarn doll draws him into dead girl Biscuit’s last wish, Rook fakes dullness to survive the pen system. After learning his friend Six’s fate in a slaughterhouse and stumbling on a truck of runaway noble children and a mysterious white-haired stranger, he must choose how much of himself to awaken to break free.

The Shadow Sire