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inspibrain101
Since: Mar, 2015
24th Jan, 2018 06:59:39 PM
It sounds a lot like "The Princess Curse" by Merrie Haskell, which is a sort of cross between Hades and Persephone and the Twelve Dancing Princesses. Could this be it?
inspibrain101
Since: Mar, 2015
I remember reading a book in middle school with a very independent young woman who worked as a servant (maybe an apothecary?) in some kind of wealthier person's castle/palace/mansion/etc. The wealthy people were probably royalty. I think this was set in the middle ages. A lot of the book revolved around a mysterious well that she felt either drawn to or repelled from, I don't remember which, and at the end of the book for some reason she needs to go into the well. Once she falls down it, she enters the realm of the dead, which looks like a giant, spooky, beautiful garden. The lord of the dead makes her his wife right off the bat, for some reason, and then she grimly accepts her fate. All I remember was that the entire book seemed so strange and dreamlike to me when I was younger and I would love to find it again. Thank you for any help you can provide.