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Once he is on the road, he kills a goose for food and is accosted by a witch who accuses him of murdering her daughter. Some characters appear in both books - as well as in the sequel, In the Cities of Coin and Spice for example, the myths of the Stars run through numerous stories.īook of the Steppe: Prince Leander escapes his castle in search of adventure. The novel is split into two books, which revolve around two different casts of characters who inhabit the same world. When he visits, she tells him the stories that are inked on her skin. For here the story never ends and the magic is only beginning.From the Trade Paperback edition.First edition cover of In the Night Gardenīecause of the strange tattoos around her eyes, a girl lives alone in the Sultan's gardens until the young prince dares to speak to her. Open it anywhere and you will fall under its spell. Graced with the magical illustrations of Michael Kaluta, In the Cities of Coins and Spice is a book of dreams and wonders unlike any you've ever encountered. Nothing is too fantastic, anything can happen, but you'll never guess what comes next in these intimately linked adventures of firebirds and djinn, singing manticores, mutilated unicorns, and women made entirely of glass and gears. And who can resist the stories she tells? From the Lake of the Dead and the City of Marrow to the artists who remain behind in a ghost city of spice, here are stories of hedgehog warriors and winged skeletons, loyal leopards and sparrow calligraphers.

Now she continues to weave her storytelling magic in a new book of Orphan's Tales-an epic of the fantastic and the exotic, the monstrous and mysterious, that will transport you far away from the everyday.Her name and origins are unknown, but the endless tales inked upon this orphan's eyelids weave a spell over all who listen to her read her secret history.

Valente enchanted readers with her spellbinding In the Night Garden.