the Book of Twist

A girl surrounded by death. Two brothers who fill her dreams. A soul-stealer who hides in her nightmares. And a world twisted beyond repair by black magic...

Darcy Goulding, a high school girl burdened with the weight of her best friend and little brother's recent deaths, does not think she can handle much more. But her only refuge, the dreams haunted by the twin brothers Beau and Bay, is quickly stolen from her when she is betrayed and trapped by a nightmare magician known as the Sayre.

The prayers spoken as their coffins were buried did not save her loved ones, as Darcy soon discovers. Forced into signing her own soul away to the Sayre to save the souls of her dead friend and brother, Darcy is whisked away to a strange world of fantastic clockwork creations, deadly shadow creatures, psychotic rulers, corsets and lace gowns, steam-powered airships, floating cities, and much, much more that all threaten to make Darcy's head implode. Through a chain of unforeseen events, she has found herself allied with the motley crew of a thieving sky ship, a fearsome and mad young captain as beautiful as he is wicked, and a trigger-happy fugitive of a woman scorned. Tasked with playing soldier for the unpredictable Sayre with a set of dark instructions laid out in a puzzling path before her, Darcy's time is quickly running out...