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sister is a knife-thrower in a magician’s stage act, the brother
an undertaker’s assistant. Neither orphan knows of the other’s
existence. Until, that is, three terrible Aunts descend on the girl’s
house and imprison her guardian, the Great Cardamom. His dying act
is to pass the girl a note with clues to the secret he carries to
his grave. Cardamom was one of three explorers on an expedition
to locate the legendary Amarant, a plant with power over life and
death. Now, pursued by flesh-eating crow-like ghuls, brother and
sister must decode the message and save themselves from its sinister
legacy.
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