# Ombria in Shadow

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- 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: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7320-575-8
- Published: 2014-10-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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 ...