From the author of Love in a Time of Monsters comes an electrifying prequel that invites you to live fast, die young, and shed a little blood. Liam is a trained killer—meticulous, cunning, an artist with a knife. Cat is his protégée—wild, reckless, a girl lost. They're young. They're beautiful. They kill monsters. Egypt, 1866. A terror is unleashed upon Cairo. A predator that travels under a cloak of storms and lurks amongst the dunes. It reigns like a king in an empire of sand and kills with human-like precision. Its prey of choice: man. Liam can't resist the allure of the ultimate kill. Cat has a vendetta against all unnatural creatures. They’re deadly. They’re invincible. They’re being hunted.

A rising body count. A deadly creature. A boy who inherits the mother of all monster problems. Bookish and sickly Rob Stevenson knows he can’t kill the monster terrorizing his village alone so he sets out to hire Scotland’s best hunter. Fire-breathing, trigger-happy Cat Mornay is hardly Rob’s idea of a hero. But her kill list is impressive. If her past encounter with this monster shows what she can do, then she’s the perfect hunter for the job. But can Cat kill a creature who is faster, stronger, and growing smarter every day? Reluctant heroes. An unlikely friendship. A gas-lit adventure in a world of dazzling magic, underworld crime, and mythical beasts. And the hunt of a century... Welcome to the Golden Age of Monsters.