A terrifying and original serial-killer thriller from award-winning author, Lauren Beukes. Chicago 1931. Harper Curtis, a violent drifter, stumbles on a house with a secret as shocking as his own twisted nature - it opens onto other times. He uses it to stalk his carefully chosen 'shining girls' through the decades - and cut the spark out of them. He's the perfect killer. Chicago, 1992. Kirby Mazrachi, whose life was shattered after a brutal attempt to murder her, is struggling to find her attacker. The evidence is impossible.