num_pages: 402
description: A superb murder mystery on an epic scale set against the fall out  literally  of a war in Heaven.Paris has survived the Great Houses War  just. Its streets are lined with haunted ruins Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell and the Seine runs black with ashes and rubble. Yet life continues among the wreckage. The citizens continue to live love fight and survive in their war-torn city and The Great Houses still vie for dominion over the once grand capital.House Silverspires previously the leader of those power games lies in disarray. Its magic is ailing; its founder Morningstar has been missing for decades; and now something from the shadows stalks its people inside their very own walls.Within the House three very different people must come together: a naive but powerful Fallen a alchemist with a self-destructive addiction and a resentful young man wielding spells from the Far East. They may be Silverspires salvation. They may be the architects of its last irreversible fall
language: English
title: The House of Shattered Wings
publisher: Gollancz