Carte - Summers at Castle Auburn/Sharon Shinn

A woman blessed, or cursed, with a talent for witchcraft returns to Castle Auburn where she spent her childhood in joy-only to find an aura of dread awaiting her. About the Author: Sharon Shinn is a journalist who works for a trade magazine. Her first novel, The Shapechanger's Wife , was selected by Locus as the best first fantasy novel of 1995. She has won the William C. Crawford Award for Outstanding New Fantasy Writer, and was twice nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has lived in the Midwest most of her life.