Jewel Sowers

Welcome to Lucifram-a world where everything is upside down, where custom is stronger than reason, virtue can be treated as folly, and a terrible Golden Serpent watches over those who have learned to accept the world exactly as it is.At the heart of this strange planet is Rosalie, a beautiful young woman deprived of speech and longing for the freedom to live like everyone else. Her life changes when she encounters the mysterious Camille Barringcourt, master of the shadowy Marble House, whose extraordinary powers offer her something she scarcely dared hope to possess. Yet the restoration of her voice is only the beginning. As Rosalie ventures deeper into Lucifram’s peculiar society, she encounters cruelty disguised as respectability, suffering defended by custom, religious authority, imprisonment, wealth, poverty, and those rare individuals brave enough to stand upright in a world determined to remain inverted.Blending fantasy, social satire, spiritual allegory, romance, and fairy-tale invention, Edith Allonby creates a world at once wonderfully strange and disturbingly familiar. Beneath its golden temples, jewels, mysterious powers, and fantastic inhabitants lies a searching examination of selfishness, compassion, freedom, sacrifice, and the courage required to challenge accepted wrongs. Jewel Sowers is an imaginative journey through a world of shadows in which the most valuable jewels are not those worn upon the body, but those cultivated within the human heart.