Scent of Magic
By: by Andre Norton.
Edition: 1st edition
Series: Five Senses #3
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780380976874
Subjects: Magic -- Fiction.; Smell -- Fiction.; Good and evil -- Fiction.
Genres: Fantasy fiction.
Description: An orphaned child and captive scullery maid, young Willadene possesses an uncanny ability to sense and understand the magical odors that pervade her world.  It is this remarkable talent--or curse--that carries her far from the fetid kitchen into an apprenticeship with a revered herbalist and ultimately to the highest circles of the Ducal court.  But there is depravity lurking within the castle's walls, inspiring brazen treacheries and usurpations--and foul abduction as unthinkable as it is unexpected.  Something horribly strange and forbidden struck at the dawn of a new day of corruption and terror.  And an innocent girl finds the heightened sense that has been her fortune is now drawing her down into a maelstrom of evil.