★ This is a brand-new work by Matthew Dow Smith, the artist behind DC, IDW, and BBC comics, and the creator of such masterpieces as Hellboy, Starman, The Unwritten, X-Files Origins, Doctor Who, and Nightingale.
★ It is a quiet and wondrous coming-of-age story and emotional graphic novel that ingeniously blends elements of teenage growth, fantasy, and mystery. It tells the story of a young girl gradually uncovering her previously unknown past, making it highly suitable for young adult readers, especially fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Nimona.
★ The book showcases the confusing yet colorful world of an 18-year-old, and is filled with fairies, ogres, various magic, and the entire world of the Night People.

A moody, coming-of-age tale for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Pecular Children and Nimona, filled with fairies and ogres and magic galore.
Autumn Ackerman grew up believing in fairies and magic and princesses who defeated dragons, but now that she’s eighteen and facing a future stuck behind the counter of her small town’s coffee shop, she’s starting to wonder if this is all there really is to her life.
But then she meets her childhood imaginary friend, Barnaby, in the alley behind the coffee shop one night. Autumn’s entire world is turned upside down.
Drawn into the strange and mysterious world of the Night Folk, fantastic creatures that inspired all of humanity’s myths about gods and monsters, Autumn is about to discover that there is more to her world than she ever dreamed of as a little girl, and that world is far more dangerous than she could ever have imagined. With the help of Barnaby and Evan Fade, the tragic young boy who inherited the local bookstore, Autumn has to protect herself from the coldly terrifying Mr. Balloon long enough to discover the truth about the Night Folk and her own past.

Matthew Dow Smith
Matthew Dow Smith is a writer, artist and screenwriter. His works have appeared in Mike Mignola's Hellboy, DC's Starman and The Sandman Mystery Theatre, Marvel's Nightcrawler, and multiple IDW-published Doctor Who comics. He is also the author and artist of DC's The Magicians, and the writer/artist of the X-Files Origins comic series for BBC and BBC America, as well as the digital comic series Johnny Kaos, Foes, and Amelia Sadows. He served as the screenwriter for the third volume of Archaia's The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths. He lives on the East Coast of the United States.

"This is a very special project for me. I've been thinking about this story for over thirty years. Now, thanks to the publisher, I can finally tell it," said Doug Smith. "For the past thirty years, I've been drawing comics about people in tight suits fighting each other, which is fun, but in my head, I've always had people in long coats, skeleton trees, and all kinds of strange little creatures. I've always wanted to tell that kind of story, but I couldn't find the right platform. But now, as more and more people start to pay attention to comics beyond tight suits and capes, I can finally pour out all these ideas."