About the Book
Locus Award nominee 1993.
Brought up by her widowed father, legendary creator of truly enchanted objets d'art, Fiametta was a good and faithful daughter... if perhaps a
little wild. She wanted desperately to be more than her father's unpaid
and untrained apprentice; she wanted to use the magic that she knew lay
within her. But despite all tears and pleadings, Master Beneforte
remained more likely to have her scrub the kiln than help create a magic chalice. After all, it was a great waste to train a mere daughter
beyond the needs of the moment.
But all that changed with the flash of the dagger that ripped her
father's patron from the world. Soon father and daughter were running
for their lives, and not long after Fiametta was running alone – and all
that could save her was her own single magical creation...