Will a warning from beyond the grave save Calia from the fate of the previous Ebonwood wives, or will it spell her ultimate ruin? As her complicated feelings for him begin to grow, so does her fear of Ebonwood-a kingdom shrouded in darkness, secrets, and even murder. Once more facing a marriage not of his choosing, he vows not to make the same mistakes that cost him so dearly last time.Ĭalia soon discovers that fooling the prince will be much harder than she thought. After the untimely death of his first wife, all he wishes is to be left alone. Prince Brone believes in nothing-certainly not the curse rumored to plague the royal wives of Ebonwood. All she has to do is impersonate a missing princess and fulfill that princess’s betrothal to the Prince of Ebonwood. How could she not when she is haunted by a past encounter that sent her into hiding? She concocts a plan so crazy, it just might save her- if it doesn’t lead to her downfall.
"A moving and convincing testimony to the continuing tension between the desire for assimilation and the awareness of seperateness Marcel Moring is beyond doubt one of the most imaginative and perceptive novelists writing today.Synopsis: In a dark, dark wood, there was a dark, dark man. Loosely based on Dante's Inferno, this ambitious and enthralling novelan in-depth study of Europeans' angst and fear after the Holocaustconfirms Möring's place among "the ranks of the most important European writers of his generation" - Die Welt (Germany) "In a rich tapestry of styles, fantasy, and philosophical speculations, Marcel Möring leads us on a voyage through the dark heart of the twentieth century and through a vivid exploration of loss and guilt. "he incessant roaming and rambling of these two men can be hard to read and follow." - Library Journal
rendering this selection a virtuoso performance of sorts, at times as confounding as it is inspired." - Booklist
"Möring deploys a prodigious mélange of motifs and narrative styles. "Readers interested in contemporary European literature may find the narrative thought-provoking." - Library Journal Moring loves to experiment wildly with form, transforming parts of his narrative into cartoons, embracing digressions in enormous parentheses and using graphics to depict fireworks onomatopoetically. "This flat novel.is occasionally interesting but lacks much memorable material." - Publishers Weekly
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