Ombria in Shadow

Hardcover, 298 Seiten

Sprache: English

Am Januar 2002 von Ace Books veröffentlicht.

ISBN:
978-0-441-00895-7
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OCLC-Nummer:
51926374
ASIN:
044100895X
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694137

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Ombria. It is a city that echoes with the footfalls of sapphire-heeled shoes. . .that holds its breath as a straw-haired apparition glides through its streets. . .that sees its dreams—and nightmares—take shape in the drawings of a bastard-heir. It is an enchanted time and place envisioned by World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip, acclaimed author of The Tower at Stony Wood.

When Ombria's prince, Royce Greve, breathes his last in palace rooms high above the city, he leaves his young son at the mercy of his ancient great-aunt, Domina Pearl—a woman who has plotted her rise to power in Ombria for far too many years to allow a little boy to stand in her way. Already she has thrown Greve's pretty mistress out into the streets, where no one would expect her to live an hour. The boy will take her a little longer.

Meanwhile, in a …

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  • Mistresses
  • Hell
  • Witches
  • Fiction
  • Imaginary places
  • Kings and rulers
  • Magic
  • Inheritance and succession
  • Fiction, fantasy, general
  • Princes

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