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Through the novelist with Antonia Fraser's authenticity and Anne Rice's allure comes another "highly pleasurable romp" (Newsday), with a millennial twist. In The Oracle Goblet and The Serpent Garden, Judith Merkle Riley enchanted listeners with abundant, pause-resisting re-creations of eras past, wicked thumbnail sketches of ability players, riotous action, scrumptious mystery and relationship, luminous prose, and feisty heroines with a feminist sensibility. The Expert of All Desires has everything, with an extra being able to help of the occult, clad in Riley's hallmark style and wit. It really is 1556 and the queen's astrologer, the prophet Nostradamus has uncovered a technique that could damage the kingdom of France. The queen, Catherine de Medicis, a dabbler in dark-colored magic, has made a decision to remove the king's mistress by seeking out the legendary Undying Brain of Menander the Magus, known as the Expert of All Desires. But she will not know that bad befalls all those who wish after this accursed thing. And the top, in its coffer, has fallen into the possession of a charming, wryly perceptive but uncooperative young girl: Sybille Artaud de la Roche, a bluestocking poet who needs it to acquire all her dreams...beauty, genius, and a dashing, brilliant cavalier. The three-way struggle that ensues - a prophet who scorns poetry, a female in love, and a sly and ruthless queen - is defined against the abundant, detailed tapestry of your country on the verge of civil battle and a energetic constellation of famous characters clustered around Nostradamus, seer of the millennium.
