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Authors: Susannah Appelbaum

The Shepherd of Weeds

Also by Susannah Appelbaum

The Hollow Bettle
The Poisons of Caux, Book I

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The Poisons of Caux, Book II

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2011 by Susannah Appelbaum

Jacket and title page art copyright © 2011 by Jennifer Taylor

All other interior illustrations copyright © 2011 by Andrea Offermann

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Appelbaum, Susannah.

The shepherd of weeds / Susannah Appelbaum; illustrated by Andrea Offermann. — 1st ed.

p. cm. — (The poisons of Caux; bk. 3)

Summary: With an army of scarecrows, a legion of birds, and her friends and uncle by her side, it is up to Ivy Manx to wage war against the evil Vidal Verjouce and the Tasters Guild, defeat her own father, and restore order to the plant world.

eISBN: 978-0-375-89897-6

[1. Poisons—Fiction. 2. Scarecrows—Fiction. 3. Uncles—Fiction. 4. Fantasy.]

I. Offermann, Andrea, ill. II. Title.

PZ7.A6445Sh 2011

[Fic]—dc22

2010051351

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For A.M.R.,

who stayed until the Wind changed

Lo, I the man, whose Muse whilom did mask,
As time her taught, in lowly Shepherd’s weeds …

—The Faerie Queene
Spenser

Previously in
THE POISONS OF CAUX

Times had changed in the ancient land of Caux. The Deadly Nightshades were no longer, and while many in the realm awaited news of the previous ruler, the beloved King Verdigris, a stubborn few hoped for the return of a more dangerous way of life … a way of poison.

The world of botany was a deadly one, but there existed an arguably worse evil—and sadly for Ivy, this was her father. Vidal Verjouce was not only the Director of the secretive Tasters’ Guild but a true specter of destruction. And he now had a masterful ally, the deadly and treacherous plant called scourge bracken, a weed so potent, so perilous, that nearly all who encountered it were annihilated. One needed to be a powerful and mighty king to handle its dark and unpredictable character.

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