Description:When Marianne's parents
died, leaving control of their fortune to her feared older brother, she
struggled to make her way as a student in America - and her old home
began to seem as unreal as a fairy tale, her childhood there as distant
as a dream . . .
Until the Magus came to claim her, and the Black Madame
to destroy her, and the Manticore to hunt her down through the streets
of another world - for there is magic in Marianne's blood, and magic in
her soul. And in a battle fought in an everchanging world of warped time
and wicked magic, it is the souls of Marianne and her family that are
the ultimate prizes.