Includes an introduction by Warren Ellis.
*Temperance, a magician desperate to put her past and her criminal family behind her, agrees to do something that she swears she can't: read the last thoughts of the dead.
Amy, her companion, hasn't slept since she was born, but has been dreaming all her life of one thing: to love and be loved.
However, Amy is fated to perform a wonder to rival any of Temperance's and is doomed by her weak heart. Many destinies converge in 1897 New Orleans with Temperance's reading of the remains of a man known as the "Mad Machinist".
Suddenly, Temperance and Amy find themselves trapped in the pact between a murderer and his accomplice--and tangled in the shreds of a nightmare made real. *Source: Back Cover