While barbarians threaten the land, mysterious visions help guide fifteen-year-old Rose when she is given the chance to free her family from servitude, if only she will provide a wicked old man an heir fathered by his deformed grandson, "the Thing" locked in the attic.
- ISBN10 0374383898
- ISBN13 9780374383893
- Publish Date 17 October 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 May 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English