**Winner: Nebula Award for Best Novel****Winner: Locus Award for Best First Novel****Shortlisted for: Hugo Award for Best Novel**'Stealthily funny, slyly smart, and remarkably touching' VERONICA ROTH, bestselling author of WHEN AMONG CROWSShesheshen has made a fatal mistake for a monster: she's fallen in love.
Johnson knew he was annoying the younger man, who so obviously lived by the regulations in the Colonial Officer’s Manual and lacked the imagination to understand why he was doing this.
When the paths of a broken Australian soldier and a cursed medieval village cross, the stage is set for a conflict with disastrous consequences for all involved, or, just perhaps, for healing and reconciliation that few believed possible.