Winner of the Andre Norton Award Return to New York Times bestselling author Holly Black&;s enthralling realm of faerie in the second Modern Faerie Tales novel, where danger and magic come hand-in-hand in the dark underground of New York City.When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York, she&;s trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city&;s labyrinthine subway system. But there&;s something eerily beguiling about Val&;s new friends that sets her on edge. When Val is talked into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature, she must strike a bargain to make it out with her life intact. Now drawn into a world she never knew existed, Val finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.