Continuing the absorbing, inventive saga started in Foundling, Lamplighter follows Rossam�顫nd Bookchild, now one of the Emperor��┬ lamplighters, who is sworn to protect travelers from the ferocious bogles that live in the wild. Small and meek, he does not fit in. Then a haughty young female monster hunter is forced upon the lamplighters for training. As Rossam�顫nd begins to make new friends in the dangerous world of the Half-Continent, he also seems to make more enemies, finding himself pushed toward a destiny that he could never have imagined. . . .