Welcome to Shadow. ...Mind the fairy dust. When Bloody Fairy Hippy Ishtar takes her pet spider, defies her tribe and flees the world of Shadow with the all-powerful muse king on a quest for an ancient weapon that will save her people from certain annihilation, only one thing is certain: she's going to be in deep trouble when she goes home. But the trouble is only just beginning. The weapon is not where it's supposed to be. Their search is dogged by gangsters, a dodgy treasure hunter, insurgents from Shadow and a very nasty vampire intent on creating an army. Time is running out - and when Hippy's alliance with the muse king lands her in a prison of monsters and madmen, she is forced to choose between death and war. There's just one thing the muse king hasn't counted on. Bloody Fairies are good at war. And she's going to make him hurt. Bloody Fairies is the first volume in Shadow, a dark comic fantasy series about death, blood, war and shiny things.