A sorceress runs a sugar plantation using an army of golems, and has to come to terms with unresolved feelings from the past when an old lover turns out to be dying. While I liked the world this story conjured, I never really got a firm hold on who the characters were and what their relationships were, and there wasn't a lot of action going on that I could use to anchor the story, so it wound up feeling kind of loose and unfocused.