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Summary

‘Bound to be an immediate classic’ – HANNAH KANER 
‘Will tear out your heart and heal it in the same breath’ – ELIZA CHAN 
‘Richly imagined and transportive’ – OLIVIE BLAKE 
‘A haunting story of loneliness, love and loss’ – GARETH BROWN 
** A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK ** 
A haunting dark urban fantasy set in historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who will not forgive… 
Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place. 
But the past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy – and her forgotten childhood. 
As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making. 
A horror story packed with action and adventure, it plunges Mercy into a relentless cat-and-mouse chase with a malignant spirit that knows far too much. This fiction novel turns every haunting into a revelation, until Mercy must decide what she’s willing to remember to stop the killings. 
For fans of V. E. Schwab (Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil), T Kingfisher (Paladin's Faith), Kylie Lee Baker (Japanese Gothic), Amal El-Mohtar (The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2011 Edition), and Katherine Arden (The Warm Hands of Ghosts). 
HarperCollins 2026

Duration: about 13 hours (13:03:38)
Publishing date: 2026-05-07; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

• Contemporary Fiction
• Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Horror