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Ysabel
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics
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Publisher's Summary
The internationally best-selling fantasy novels of Guy Gavriel Kay have won the author numerous awards and immense critical acclaim. Ysabel is a contemporary fantasy that centers on the Saint-Sauveur Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence, where a 15-year-old boy accompanies his father on a photo shoot. Befriending a whip-smart American girl and confronting a knife-wielding maniac, the boy finds that the ancient site shimmers with mysteries of fantastical design.