
The birth of her daughter seems to seal her off completely, and the child, named Candacis but called Coira, grows up under the care of nursemaids. In the shock of her experience, she withdraws from the world, indeed, from her own soul, becoming cold and remote.

Protected all her life, she has no knowledge of the world outside her home. Princess Arpazia is 14 when she is taken as a spoil of war by the warrior-king Draco and brought to Delphi in his kingdom in the south, where she becomes his queen. Tanith Lee takes on the mantle of a contributor to Terri Windling's Fairy Tales Series of books with White as Snow, a dark and moody retelling of "Snow White" which also incorporates elements of the Demeter/Persephone myth. Rambles.NET: Tanith Lee, White as Snow Tanith Lee,
