Jacqueline Carey's popular Kushiel series of novels are known for the rare way in which they weave the erotic elements of S&M, dominance and submission into a detailed narrative set in a world of romance and intrigue.

The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good...and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt.

A young woman is born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by a nobleman with very a special mission. He is the first to recognize who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one.

Set in a world of cunning poets, deadly courtiers, heroic traitors, and a Machiavellian villainess, this is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies.