A young girl’s midnight lark calls up an ancient, malevolent spirit… A band of orphans plans an impossible rescue of their friends from a group of industrialists bent on invading the Impassable Wilderness… An exiled toymaker teams up with a young bandit and the Bicycle Maiden on a quest to reanimate a mechanical boy price… As the fate of Wildwood hangs in the balance. The third book in the Wildwood Chronicles is even more rich and dazzling and surprising than the first two novels. Colin Meloy is at the height of his gifts with Wildwood Imperium, sealing the series’ destiny as a new classic.