 240 pages Product Description In her best-selling debut,
<i>Hothouse Flower and the</i> <i>Nine Plants of Desire</i>,
Margot Berwin brought us to the rain forests of Mexico—to a land
of shamans, spirit animals, and snake charmers—in the search for
nine rare and valuable plants. Now, with her hotly anticipated
second novel, Berwin takes us somewhere darker: deep into the
bayous of Louisiana, to a world of fortune-tellers, soothsayers,
and potent elixirs. <i>Scent of Darkness</i> is a magical,
seductive story about the power of scent, and about what happens
when a perfume renders a young woman
irresistible.<br> <br>Evangeline grows up understanding the
extraordinary effects of fragrance. Her grandmother Louise is a
gifted aromata, a master of scent-making and perfume. When Eva
was a girl, Louise carefully explained that lavender under her
pillow would make her dream of the man she would marry;
eucalyptus would make her taller; almandine, fatter; and
jasmine, Louise promised, would wrap her life in a mystery. W