The war in the waste

Crispin is a "circus baby, " born in a caravan, working as a daemon handler and aerialist - until an accident on the high wire casts him out into a world even stranger than the circus that nurtured him. Crispin falls headlong into the arms of Rae, an orphan girl of equally exotic origins. And soars in daemon-powered biplanes over the wastelands of the Raw, joining the awesome battle between Ferupe's slow-dying Queen and her adversary, the Lizard Significant.