In the Forests of Serre (Mckillip, Patricia a)

Shattered by the loss of his wife and child, a grieving Prince Ronan of Serre accidentally tramples a white hen in the road and earns himself a witch's curse, which draws him in pursuit of an irresistible pursuit of a mysterious firebird, a quest that takes him into another world. By the author of Ombria in Shadow. In the tales of World Fantasy, by Award-winning author Patricia McKillip, nothing is ever as it seems. A mirror is never just a mirror, a forest is never just a forest. Here, it is a place where a witch can hide in her house of bones and a prince can bargain with his heart ... where good and evil entwine and wear each others' faces ... and where a bird with feathers of fire can quench the fiercest longing