<div>Praise for Nicole Kornher-Stace:<BR><BR>"In richly textured, atmospheric prose, Kornher-Stace delivers a spellbinding tale of deception, betrayal, and the darker possibilities of playacting."?<I>Booklist</I><BR><BR>"Mesmerizing from the first page and once you get into its flow, a page turner to boot."?<I>Fantasy Book Critic</I><BR><BR>"Absorbing, exciting, intellectually fascinating, emotionally true, and well-crafted, bobbles and all."?<I>Ideomancer</I><BR><BR>Wasp's job is simple. Hunt ghosts. And every year she has to fight to remain Archivist. Desperate and alone, she strikes a bargain with the ghost of a supersoldier. She will go with him on his underworld hunt for the long-long ghost of his partner and in exchange she will find out more about his pre-apocalyptic world than any Archivist before her. And there is much to know. After all, Archivists are marked from birth to do the holy work of a goddess. They're chosen. They're special. Or so they've been told for four hundred years.<BR><BR>Archivist Wasp fears she is not the chosen one, that she won't survive the trip to the underworld, that the brutal life she has escaped might be better than where she is going. There is only one way to find out.<BR><BR><B>Nicole Kornher-Stace</B> was born in Philadelphia in 1983, moved from the East Coast to the West Coast and back again by the time she was five, and currently lives in New Paltz, New York, with one husband, three ferrets, one precocious preschooler, and too many books to count.</div>