The eagerly awaited new novel by the author of Living with Ghosts

Kari Sperring’s brilliant new novel is set several hundred years after her “enthralling” debut, Living with Ghosts, in a different part of the amazing, atmospheric, magical world she created.

When a wealthy young woman, obsessed with a childhood vision of a magical Shining Palace, sets out with her true love to search for a legendary land, she discovers the devastated WorldBelow — the realm of the Grass King — and the Cadre, who take her prisoner and demand she either restore the king’s concubine — or replace her...

Published
August 2, 2012

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