Foundling

The first book in a thrilling new series that has been a hit around the world.

"enough secrets, promises, and mystery to create impatient demand for part two." - Booklist (starred review)

Featuring monsters, creatures and weird, surgically engineered characters, the novel summons up an unusual fantasy world.

Set in the world of the Half-Continent - a land of tri-corner hats and flintlock pistols - the Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy is a world of predatory monsters, chemical potions and surgically altered people. Foundling begins the journey of Rossamund, a boy with a girl's name, who is just about to begin a dangerous life in the service of the Emperor. What starts as a simple journey is threatened by encounters with monsters - and people, who may be worse. Learning who to trust and who to fear is neither easy nor without its perils, and Rossamund must choose his path carefully.