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They worship the Sun the only god as cruel as they areThe Masters dreadful and severe rule the Red City and the lands far beyond it By night they politic and feast drinking from townsfolk resigned to their fates By day the Masters must rely on their human servants their Day Boys to fulfill their every need and carry out their willMark is a Day Boy practically raised by his Master Dain Its grueling often dangerous work but Mark neither knows nor wants any other life And if a Day Boy proves himself worthy the nightmarish allseeing Council of Teeth may choose to offer him a rare gift the opportunity to forsake his humanity for monstrous power and nearimmortality like the Masters transformed before himBut in the crackling heat of the Red City widespread discontent among his fellow humans threatens to fracture Marks allegiances As manhood draws near so too does the end of Marks tenure as a Day Boy and he cannot stay suspended between the worlds of man and Master for much longerWith brilliantly evocative hypnotic prose Trent Jamieson crafts a fangsharp and surprisingly tender comingofage story about a headstrong boyand the monster who taught him to be a man