Alice Wyndham is afraid of birds. But she receives a strange gift from an old woman who died right in her hands.
An unremarkable feather of a sielulin(tu) midnightbird.
Now Alice is a bird catcher and knows she can read souls like an open book.
When Alice’s best friend is involved in a car accident, Alice must break into the Abode of Death to save her. To reach the Black Menagerie, where they find a home for the midnightbirds—if their owners’ souls fly away. And to steal a bird-soul from the Lord of the Dead himself.