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Ny Times-Bestselling author Vonda D. McIntyre demonstrates she's "endowed with both vision and guru" (BookPage) within this spectacular tale -- part adventure story, part legend, and part Old book-- what Publishers Weekly calls "a wonderful alternate background myth." In seventeenth-century France, Louis XIV guidelines with showy goal. In the Hall of Mirrors to the vermin-infested attics of the Chateau at Versailles, courtiers participate to please the master, compromising bundle, concepts, and also the holy relationship between sister and brother. Marie-Josèphe de la Croix looks forward to helping her loved brother within the study of the sea creatures the master has commissioned him to find.