{"product_id":"daughter-from-the-dark-9780062916228","title":"Daughter from the Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of \u003cem\u003eVita Nostra\u003c\/em\u003e--a dark Harry Potter on steroids with a hefty dose of metaphysics (award-winning author Aliette de Bodard)--return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and fantasy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLate one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA game of cat-and-mouse has begun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaiming that she is a musical prodigy, Alyona insists she must play a complicated violin piece to find her brother. Confused and wary, Aspirin knows one thing: he wants her out of his apartment and his life. Yet every attempt to get rid of her is thwarted by an unusual protector: her plush teddy bear that may just transform into a fearsome monster. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlyona tells Aspirin that if he would just allow her do her work, she'll leave him--and this world. He can then return to the shallow life he led before her. But as outside forces begin to coalesce, threatening to finally separate them, Aspirin makes a startling discovery about himself and this ethereal, eerie child. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Voyager\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062916228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304","brand":"Dyachenko","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40494025834677,"sku":"9780062916228","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3e7b9e35-a950-4cd9-832c-58a009a196d0.jpg?v=1626157537","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/daughter-from-the-dark-9780062916228","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}