Publisher Annotation: The country of Arketta calls them Good Luck Girls�??they know their luck is anything but. Sold to a �??welcome house�?� as children and branded with cursed markings. Trapped in a life they would never have chosen. When Clementine accidentally kills a man, the girls risk a dangerous escape and harrowing journey to find freedom, justice, and revenge in a country that wants them to have none of those things. Pursued by Arketta�??s most vicious and powerful forces, both human and inhuman, their only hope lies in a bedtime story passed from one Good Luck Girl to another, a story that only the youngest or most desperate would ever believe. It�??s going to take more than luck for them all to survive.

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."