Caitlín R. Kiernan.
Threshold.
Roc. 2001
Shaken by her grandfather’s death,
Chance Matthews isn’t in the mood
to deal with a strange girl with alabaster skin
who knows things about Chance she can’t possibly know.
The girl speaks of being charged by an angel
to battle monsters and claims she cannot do it alone.
She says she needs Chance’s help.
Chance doesn’t believe in angels—or monsters. But among the artifacts left by her geologist grandparents, there lies a fossil of a creature that couldn’t possibly have ever existed.
But it did. And still does…