The Danék is a wild, treacherous river, and the Fobisher family has tended it for generations-clearing it of ice and weed, making sure boats can get through, and fishing corpses from its bleak depths. Wulliams father, the current Riverkeep, is proud of this work. Wull dreads it. And in one week, when he comes of age, he will have to take over.Then the unthinkable happens. While recovering a drowned man, Wulls father is pulled under-and when he emerges,...

Agreeing to care for his younger sister's "faeries" when she is sent away to escape the air raids, Luka, a no-nonsense youth from a war-torn city discovers, to his horror, that the faeries are real and want revenge for his disrespect.