num_pages: 262
description: An ambitious young princess Ulrike turns to the dark arts in order to become queen despite her younger sisters warnings of a fatal consequence to mortgaging her soul. She succeeds yet Ulrike finds herself trapped in a hateful marriage her mind slowly being devoured by her powers while conceiving and giving birth to a boy.Alarick -- the bastard prince -- becomes the courts favorite object of mockery because of the scandal of his conception his mothers spiraling madness compounding his ordeal. When Alarick falls in love with a childhood friend Roald von Thiessen the added sin of an unnatural romance gets caught up in a tumultuous aristocratic environment thats rife with hypocrisy cruelty betrayal and murder.Forcibly separated from each other during a bloody uprising Roald and Alarick become helplessly ensnared in nightmarish adventures designed to twist their characters and destroy their minds in the process. The young lovers fight for their souls and a way back to each other in a world weighed down by the forces of dark and light magic and gods grapple with each other over mortal destinies.Arabesque is more than a gothic homoerotic retelling of the Snow White folktale. It is at once allegory and a darkly satirical account of contemporary issues such as misogyny homophobia and the process of reparative therapy.
language: English
title: Arabesque
publisher: JMS Books LLC