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description: A gothic YA fantasy debut about a young woman striving to break her sisters curse and stop the killing in her small French townSeventeen-year-old Marie mixes perfumes to sell on market day in her small eighteenth-century French town. She wants to make enough to save a dowry for her sister Ama in hopes of Ama marrying well and Marie living in the level of freedom afforded only to spinster aunts. But her perfumes are more than sweet scents in cheap cut-glass bottles: A certain few are laced with death. Marie laces the perfume delicatelynot with poison but with a hint of honeysuckle shes trained her sister to respond to. Marie marks her victim and Ama attacks. But she doesnt attack as a girl. She kills as a beast.Marking Amas victims controls the damage to keep suspicion at bay. But when a young boy turns up dead one morning Marie is forced to acknowledge she might be losing control of Ama. And if she cant control her shell have to cure her. Marie knows the only place shell find the cure is in the mansion where Ama was cursed in the first place home of Lord Sebastien LeClaire. But once she gets into the mansion she discovers dark secrets hidden awaysecrets of the curse of Lord Sebastien . . . and of herself.
language: English
title: Stalking Shadows
publisher: Amulet Books