Cast in Shadow

Something is stirring again... Seven years ago Kaylin fled the crime-riddled streets of Nightshade, knowing that something was after her. Children were being murdered--and they all had the same odd markings that mysteriously appeared on her own skin... Since then, she´s learned to read, she´s learned to fight and she´s become one of the vaunted Hawks who patrol and police the city of Elantra. Alongside the winged Aerians and immortal Barrani, she´s made a place for herself far from the mean streets of her birth. But children are once again dying, and a dark and familiar pattern is emerging. Kaylin is ordered back into Nightshade with a partner she knows she can´t trust, a Dragon lord for a companion and a device to contain her powers--powers that no other human has. Her task is simple: find the killer, stop the murders...and survive the attentions of those who claim to be her allies.