About the Book
The shapeshifter...
As the only child of a powerful sorcerer, Odile Von Rothbart has
studied the magical arts under her father's stern tutelage all her
life. Yet she feels only fear toward him. For considering his wife's
untimely death the ultimate betrayal, Baron Von Rothbart scours the
land in the shape of a great bird of prey. His personal mission is to
capture women who arouse his wrath and inspire his rage for vengeance
against all womankind. These poor souls he turns into swans - forcing
them to spend their lives as beautiful but powerless animals who only
regain their human forms briefly each night by the transitory light of
the moon.
Yet through Odile is terrified of him, she has learned far
more than her father, the baron, intended to teach her - both of the
magical arts and of Von Rothbar's idiosyncratic nature. And both as a
woman and the guardian of his swan flock, her heart goes out to each
and every young maiden ensorcelled by her vindictive father.
And then the noblest of Von Rothbart's enchanted flock, the
Princess Odette, finds the courage to confron her captor, wresting from
him a pact which could lead to freedom for herself and all the
swan-maidens. Knowing Von Rothbart will use all of his magical cunning
to avoid honoring this pact, will Odile have the strength to face him
in a final magical confrontation which, if she fails, will lead to her
death and the murder of all in her flock?
