From the publisher: "In your dreams." Dreams can be both beautiful and cruel, and no denizen of the Tarnished Souk exemplifies both those qualities as devastatingly as Belladonna. As the stunning proprietor of the Nightshade Palace, the Coliseum Morpheuon's premiere nightspot, she is a master of others' vices and desires, providing drinks and indulgences only possible in the realm of the unreal. But beauty is only skin deep, and beneath the mien of a joyful and engaging hostess lurks a dark secret. Hers is the face of the one who didn't love you back, and more than any wound or weapon, that pain kills.