Winner of the Nebula Award and now a major motion picture: "A luminous, radiant novel" (Ursula K. Le Guin, author of the Earthsea series). During the late seventeenth century, Louis XIV's natural philosopher and explorer, Father Yves de la Croix, does what no one...
New York Times bestselling author Vonda N. McIntyre proves she is blessed with both vision and genius (BookPage) in this breathtaking tale-- part adventure story, part legend, and part Gothic novel-- what Publishers Weekly calls a marvelous alternative history fable. In seventeenth-century...