An alternate history in which Marie-Josephe de la Croix, the sister of a Jesuit priest in the employ of France's King Louis XIV, befriends a sea monster the monarch believes holds the key to immortality, and draws the wrath of the king by attempting to set the captive creature free.
year: 1998
call number/section: 1000
subjects: immortality, fiction, monsters, historical fiction, france, history, louis xiv, 1643-1715, fiction