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In her best-selling debut, Hothouse Bloom and the Nine Crops of Desire, Margot Berwin helped bring us to the rain forests of Mexico - to a land of shamans, nature animals, and snake charmers - in the seek out nine unusual and valuable plant life. Now, with her hotly anticipated second novel, Berwin can take us someplace darker: deep into the bayous of Louisiana, to an environment of fortune-tellers, soothsayers, and effective elixirs. Aroma of Darkness is a wonderful, seductive tale about the power of aroma, and in what happens when a perfume renders a young woman amazing. Evangeline grows up understanding the incredible effects of perfume. Her grandmother Louise is a gifted aromata, a get better at of scent-making and perfume. When Eva was a girl, Louise carefully explained that lavender under her pillow would make her imagine the man she'd marry; eucalyptus would make her taller; almandine, fatter; and jasmine, Louise guaranteed, would cover her life in a secret. When Eva is eighteen, Louise leaves her the ultimate gift idea - a aroma created simply for her. The small perfume vial is accompanied by a take note in Louise's slanted script: "Do not remove the stopper, Evangeline, unless you want everything in your daily life to change." From the moment Eva places a drop - the essence of fire, leather, increased, and jasmine - on her neck, men dance closer to her, women bury their noses deep into her head of hair, even the pet cats outside her bedroom cry to be near her. After a lifetime spent blending into the track record, Eva is all of a sudden the thing of intense need to everyone around her. Strangers follow her down the street; a young guy looks at her door requesting a favor; and two men, one kind and good, the other dark and seductive, show up deeply, madly deeply in love with her. As her most significant gift idea becomes an unbearable curse, Eva must find out the trick of her aroma and the subject matter her grandmother, the girl who adored her most, wished to inform her. A bewitching tale of love, blood, power, and powerful, Aroma of Darkness is a wildly inventive novel that will seduce the reader's every sense.
