Ombria in Shadow

Patricia A. McKillip

The Prince of Ombria is dying and already his sinister great-aunt is plotting to seize power. The Black Pearl is feared throughout the land and the city folk know her reign will be a terrible one. Only the prince's son can stop her from seizing the throne but he's just a boy - barely worth the trouble of doing away with.

Ombria it seems is doomed. And yet beneath the streets in a buried world of shadows and ghosts a mysterious sorceress is weaving new spells watched over by a girl sculpted entirely from wax ...