Nita dissects the bodies for her, but she's never killed any of them herself, so it's not like she's doing anything she should feel guilty about, right? Right. She inherited her abilities from her mother, one of the most prolific dealers of unnatural body parts on the black market. She can turn her pain receptors on and off, make wounds heal super fast, increase or decrease the appropriate hormones when she needs to run, sleep, or calm down, and probably more if she was willing to risk experimenting.

The 17-year-old heroine Nita is an unclassified unnatural with the power to consciously control natural bodily functions regular humans can't.

Powdered unicorn bone is great for a high, zannie blood is an excellent painkiller, and eating an unnatural's eyes, limbs, or skin will give you some of their powers, right.? Maybe, maybe not, but it's worth a try. All around the world, there's a thriving black market trade in unnaturals and unnatural body parts. In theory, that's the list of species whose very existence necessitates killing humans, so killing unnaturals on the list has been declared perfectly legal as 'preemptive self-defense.'Īnd there’s plenty of people willing and eager to kill unnaturals - their flesh, blood, and organs are in high demand. The dual purpose of the International Non-Human Police (INHUP) is to protect innocent unnaturals from an ignorant public and protect innocent humans from species on the Dangerous Unnaturals List. They all have one thing in common, though: humanity hates and fears them. Some are completely new (zannies who must feed on human pain, aurs who simply glow in the dark). Some have familiar names, like unicorns, humans (not horses) who must feed on the souls of virgins. Some are familiar (vampires who must feed on human blood, ghouls who must feed on human flesh, kelpies who must also feed on human flesh, which they obtain by luring victims into water and drowning them).

diets, to very non- Homo sapiens creatures that can nonetheless pass as human. The setting is 21st century Earth, shared by the mainstream human population and the 'unnaturals,' who range from humans with unique abilities or unique. Urban Fantasy focusing on Fantastic Racism with a chaser of Star-Crossed Lovers, Market of Monsters is a book trilogy consisting of: 'There was normal, there was abnormal, and then there was Nita.'

Not even bones only ashes remain