But Rois realizes that the goddess has given her the means to win Corbet's freedom and save Laurel's life-if she has the courage and the will to hold fast to her need. Laurel begins to pine away, much as Rois's mother did years before.
Eventually she's drawn into the otherworld, where she meets Corbet, his father, and the world's incomprehensible ruling goddess later she wakes in the Hall, half-frozen, beside the youthful corpse of Corbet's father, knowing that the goddess has forbidden Corbet to return. Vastly curious about Corbet, his family, and the otherworld, Rois lingers at the Hall as winter deepens. Soon Rois glimpses an otherworld of perpetual summer, where Corbet seems to have spent most of his life-but Corbet's gaze falls upon Laurel, Rois's beautiful elder sister. But supposedly the place is cursed, Corbet's father having murdered his grandfather there. Far-seeing, fey, independent Rois Melior spends much of the summer barefoot, roaming the woods about ruined Lynn Hall-until the estate's owner, Corbet, returns to claim his birthright.
Characteristically fresh, dainty fantasy from the author of The Book of Atrix Wolfe (1995), etc.
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