{"product_id":"9780765347534","title":"Kushiel's Avatar","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe land of Terre d' Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. It  is said that angels found the land and saw it was good...and the  ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one  simple rule:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove as thou wilt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhèdre nó Delaunay is a  woman born with a scarlet mote in her left eye and sold into indentured  servitude as a child. Her bond was purchased by a nobleman, and he was  the first one to recognize who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel's  Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhèdre's  path has taken a strange and sometimes dangerous course. She has lain  with princes and pirate kings, battled a wicked temptress who is still  determined to win the crown at any cost, and saved two nations with her  courageous actions and sacrifices. Through it all she has had the  devoted swordsman Joscelin at her side, who knew from the beginning what  she was. Her very nature is a torturous thing for them both, and it is a  bane on their lives--but he is sworn to her and by accepting who she  is, Joscelin has never violated the central precept of the angel  Cassiel: to protect and serve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Phèdre's plans will put his  pledge to the test, for she has never forgotten her childhood friend  Hyacinthe. She has spent ten long years searching for the key to free  him from his eternal indenture to the Master of Straights, a bargain  with the gods that he struck so that a nation could be saved; in doing  so, he took Phèdre's place as a sacrifice. She cannot forget, and she  cannot forgive--herself or the gods. She is determined to seize one last  hope to redeem her friend, even ifit means her death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir  search will bring Phèdre and Joscelin on a dangerous path that will  carry them across the world, to fabled courts and splendid vistas, to  distant lands where madness reigns and souls are currency, and down a  fabled river to a land forgotten by most of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd to a power so mighty that none dare speak its name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKushiel's Avatar\u003c\/i\u003eis  the concluding volume in Jacqueline Carey's evocative novels about the  enigmatic Phèdrenó Delaunay; the third in a triptych of beautifully  constructed historical fantasies that combine passion and danger, great  battles of the sword and soul, deep eroticism, and mystical enigmas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jacqueline Carey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Mass market (rack) paperback","offer_id":56921239060640,"sku":"9780765347534","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_478ad747-4476-431a-a29a-cd0ece7161fe.jpg?v=1776025464","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780765347534","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}