Excellent Norton fantasy.
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...and an innocent girl finds the heightened sense that has been her fortune is now drawing her down into a maelstrom of evil.
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...and an innocent girl finds the heightened sense that has been her fortune is now drawing her down into a maelstrom of evil.
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