An orphaned child and captive scullery maid, young Willadene possesses an uncanny ability to sense and understand the magical odors that pervade her world. It is this remarkable talent--or curse--that carries her far from the fetid kitchen into an apprenticeship with a revered herbalist and ultimately to the highest circles of the Ducal court. But there is depravity lurking within the castle's walls, inspiring brazen treacheries and usurpations--and foul abduction as unthinkable as it is unexpected. Something horribly strange and forbidden struck at the dawn of a new day of corruption and terror. And an innocent girl finds the heightened sense that has been her fortune is now drawing her down into a maelstrom of evil.
- ISBN10 0380784165
- ISBN13 9780380784165
- Publish Date 1 August 1999 (first published 1 October 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 13 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Avon Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English