Dimensions
128 x 197 x 14mm
She'd give anything to go back - even her soul . . .
'In the dream she hurried down an endless corridor lined with books. They towered over her head, leaning out, frowning down . . . bound in vellum and calfskin, unicorn and dragon skin, some with wings and sleepy eyes that blinked at her . . . She came to a thin mirror, and in the grimy glass she was wearing a rich girl's clothes - a blue dress, ruched and glinting with pearls - but as she touched it, it shrivelled until she held only cobwebs, fistfuls of sticky, filthy dust.'
Her family has lost everything - until the new master of Darkwater Hall offers Sarah the learning and the power to make good her family's shame. It seems all she could wish. But his offer is no gift - only a bargain that stretches across the century to claim its final, fearsome price.