Jacqueline Carey makes her "remarkable debut" with Kushiel's Dart.

"This is a considerable story, beautifully written. It's a book the reader can live in for a while, and be sorry to leave…The protagonist is uniquely endowed for this effort: who would have expected a sexual masochist as a heroine! But how can one not love her. The best fantasy I've read in years." Piers Anthony...more