Lily is a photojournalist in search of the "animal people" who supposedly haunt the city\'s darkest slums.
About the Author: The World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Onion Girl , Moonheart , and many other novels, Charles de Lint lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada..
And in this battle for the city\'s soul, nothing is quite as it appears.
Not only have Hank and Lily stumbled onto a secret, they\'ve stumbled into a war.
Native Americans call them the First People, but they have never left, and they claim the city for their own.
For the animal people walk among us.
One night, in a brutal incident, their two lives collide--uptown Lily and downtown Hank, each with a quest and a role to play in the secret drama of the city\'s oldest inhabitants.
Hank is a slumdweller who knows the bad streets all too well.
Lily is a photojournalist in search of the "animal people" who supposedly haunt the city\'s darkest slums
