Rossamund Bookchild is finally becoming a lamplighter. Sworn into the Emperors service, his duty is to light the lamps along the Emperor's highways, and protect all travellers from the ferocious bogles that live in the wild. But he's found it no easier to fit in with the lamplighters than he ever has - always too small and too meek, his loneliness continues no matter how hard he tries to succeed. But when a haughty young girl, a member of a suspiciously-regarded society of all women teratologists is forced upon the lamplighters for training, Rossamund might no longer be the most
despised soul around.

"Suspenseful and entertaining, Lamplighter is a difficult book to forget, and I'll
eagerly be awaiting the next release in this series." - Chelsea

"D.M. Cornish has done a fantastic job of creating another world... The people in it
have their own language, complete with dialect and slang, their own beliefs and
taboo subjects, their own politics and factions --and so, I suspect, do the monsters."
-Leila @ Book Shelves of Doom

Lamplighter takes on the paradoxes of life: can people who are kind to us also be
evil? When is killing the right thing? Where do Truth and Justice and Good live in
lives otherwise characterized by Hobbes (and so many others) as nasty, brutish and
short? Why is nothing simple? What happens when humans are monstrous and
monsters, humane?"
-Megan @ SFReader.com