The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney works in the illegal underworld of Scion London, in Seven Dials, and her employer is a man named Jackson Hall. Her job: to scan information by violating human thoughts. Because Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant - and in her own world, the world of Scion, her very existence is treason.

It is raining on the day her life changes forever. She becomes a victim of assault and kidnapping and is taken to Oxford - a city that has been a secret for two hundred years and is controlled by a powerful, supernatural race, the Rephaim. Paige is assigned to the Keeper, a Rephaim with mysterious motives. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom, she must allow herself to accept care in this prison where she has come to die.

"The Bone Season" introduces an irresistible heroine to the literary world. It also introduces us to Samantha Shannon, an exceptional young author with immense ambition and a rich imagination, who has created a bold new reality in this thrilling debut.

"Truly outstanding and gripping." (Andy Serkis) "A new generation of women writers claim fantasy literature for themselves. At the forefront is Samantha Shannon." (Harpers' Bazaar) "Samantha Shannon has an unimaginably inventive talent and a vast imagination. An exceptionally dynamic start." (Susan Hill) "A richly dramatic and unadulterated pleasure, filled with horror, wonder, and enchantment." (Justina Robson, author of the "Quantum Gravity" series)