![]() ![]() ![]() In fact she is Genevieve Pasquier, a precocious, crippled adolescent girl with genuine prophetic powers, abandoned by her family and taken up and trained by La Voisin, the Shadow Queen, to enter the very highest court circles. She is rumored to be over one hundred and fifty years old, with powers to read the future in the swirling waters of her oracle glass. Into this world of brilliant debauch and evil enters a dazzling and mysterious figure, the Marquise de Morville. ![]() Ladies of the highest fashion frequent the "fortune tellers" of her secret society to purchase abortions, luck charms, and poisons as easily as they might order a new gown. So great is the power of La Voisin that even the king's mistress, Madame de Montespan, is dosing her royal lover with the sorceress queen's aphrodisiacs. It is the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King, and a Queen of Shadows rules in secret over Paris. ![]()
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