Fifteen-year-old Billi is not your normal, contemporary London teen. She lives in a darker part of the world, the first female member of the Knights Templar, now committed to waging the Bataille Tenebreuse, the Dark Battle, against supernatural powers that lust for human blood, flesh, and souls. Filled with werewolves, ghouls, and vampires led by the Angel of Death, Chadda’s page-turner evokes images from Mid-East Asian religion and folklore. Fittingly enough, the story centers on the question of what are we willing to sacrifice for the greater good. The story of Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac lurks throughout . jfc