- Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2012.
- Year Published: 2012
- Description: 549 p.
- Language: English
- Format: Book
Reading Level
- Lexile: 850
ISBN/Standard Number
- 9780547628349
- 054762834X
Series
Subjects
- Assassins -- Fiction.
- Death -- Fiction.
- Gods -- Fiction.
- Courts and courtiers -- Fiction.
- Brittany (France) -- Fiction. -- History -- 1341-1532
- France -- Fiction. -- History -- Charles VIII, 1483-1498
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Call number: Teen Fiction
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In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.
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