The author of the Switchers Trilogy ';creates a convincing fantasy world' in this magical novel of a girl who sets out on a daring journey (Publishers Weekly).

Everyone in Rilka's village knows about the beguilers: the golden-eyed, wailing creatures that come out after dark and lure people to their doom.

Rilka astonishes her fellow villagers when she reveals that her Great Intentionher first act as an adultis to capture a beguiler.

During her dangerous quest to the cloud mountain, the rumored lair of the beguilers, Rilka discovers truths about the beguilersand herselfthat will change her life and her village forever.