CLOVER ELKIN ISN'T
LOOKING FOR TROUBLE.
TROUBLE IS IN HER BLOOD.
Thirteen-year-old Clover Elkin lives in a land of marvels at the edge of the Unified States of America. She dreams of a life of adventure, collecting magical oddities - ordinary objects with extraordinary powers — as her late mother did before her. But when her father is killed by lawless men, his last words set her on a quest to find the most necessary oddity of all; one that could help start a war... or end it.
Pursued across dangerous borderlands by her father's killers, Clover encounters a talking Rooster, a secret-stealing Hat, and the nightmarish Seamstress. Longing to understand her parents' connection to the oddities, Clover must uncover truths so dark - about herself and her country - that they could overturn history itself.