Phedre no Delaunay is sold as a girl into indentured service for a flaw in her eye that others call a blemish -- until her guardian Anafiel Delaunay recognizes it as a mark of Kushiel's chosen, one who feels pain and pleasure as one. Trained by Delaunay to serve as both courtesan and spy among the nobility of Terre d'Ange, a nation founded on the precept 'Love as thou wilt,' Phedre is drawn into the secrets and betrayals circling her patron's hidden work. What she overhears in bedchambers matters more to the nation's survival than anyone realizes. The first novel in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Placement
- Phèdre Trilogy — #1