The new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Mirror Visitor Quartet

Long ago, following a cataclysm called "The Tear," the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands. Known now as Arks, each has developed in distinct ways and at a different pace; each seems to possess its own unique relationship to time, such that nowadays vastly different worlds exist, together but apart. And over all of these Arks the spirit of an omnipotent and immortal ancestor abides.

Ophelia lives on Anima, an ark where objects have souls. Beneath her worn scarf a...