# Ombria in Shadow

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/patricia-a-mckillip/ombria-in-shadow/9781473205741

![Ombria in Shadow](https://quivercdn.com/covers/gollancz/patricia-a-mckillip/ombria-in-shadow_978-14-7320-574-1.jpg?v=2026-05-20%2003%3A26%3A30)

- Book: [Ombria in Shadow](https://www.bookquiver.com/patricia-a-mckillip/ombria-in-shadow) ([Ombria in Shadow.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/patricia-a-mckillip/ombria-in-shadow.md))
- Authors: [Patricia A. McKillip](https://www.bookquiver.com/patricia-a-mckillip)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-14-7320-574-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2014-09-11
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Prince of Ombria is dying, and already his sinister great-aunt is plotting to seize power. The Black Pearl is feared throughout the land, and the city folk know her reign will be a terrible one. Only the prince's son can stop her from seizing the throne but he's just a boy - barely worth the trouble of doing away with. Ombria, it seems, is doomed. And yet, beneath the streets, in a buried world of shadows and ghosts, a mysterious sorceress is weaving new spells, watched over by a girl sculpted entirely from wax ...