To some, Lily was just a beautiful little girl. To others, she was a freakish albino who ate live chickens in a freak show. Charles Darwin called her his impossible girl and tried in vain to classify her. P. T. Barnum called her his angel and tried to take advantage of her.

But the creature Barnum thought to turn into a money-making feature attraction was neither girl nor angel. She was something other, a species of unimaginable abilities, with the power to destroy—or save—our world. The power was hers alone, but only the strange blood coursing through her veins would decide when and how to unleash a power she struggled every day to control.

From the cold, barren shores of Tierra del Fuego and the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle to the bustling crowds of Victorian London, Lily’s story—and her quest—unfolds in a thrilling historical fantasy by award-winning author Len Boswell.