Hache Pueyo

Guls can be brutal. Few people know this better than Ariadne, who lost half her body to their appetites, but she finds their brutality a predictable constant amid the political chaos of Brazil. Now she treats them in the specialised clinic she inherited from Erik Yurkov—the mentor who rescued her from captivity as a child, trained her in medicine, built...

The old keeper of the keys is dead, and the creature who ate her is the volatile Lady of the Capricious House — Anatema, an enormous humanoid spider with a taste for laudanum and human brides. Dália, the old keeper's protégée, must take up her duties, locking and unlocking the little drawers in which Anatema keeps her memories. And if...