**The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Right? What if he's my lover? What if he's another enemy?** Secrets, double lives, and a hidden agenda collide with passion, humor, and adventure as the heat between two star-crossed lovers ignites. Hawk is a biker driven by a singular purpose, fueled
The Diviner's Tale
β Scribed by Bradford Morrow
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 228 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0547504381
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"In addition to scaring the daylights out of us, The Diviner's Tale stands up for the offbeat and unconventional in human nature" (The Boston Globe).
Cassandra Brooks is a diviner, what used to be called a water-witch. Hired by a developer to dowse some land in upstate New York, she is walking a lonely forested valley one spring morning when she comes upon the shocking vision of a young girl hanged from a tree. When she returns with authorities to the site, the body has vanished, leaving in question Cassandra's credibility, if not her sanity. The next day, during a return visit with the sheriff to have another look, a dazed, mute missing girl emerges from the woodsβalive, and the very picture of Cassandra's hanged girl.
What follows is the narrative of ever-deepening and increasingly bizarre divinations that will lead this gifted young woman, the struggling single mother of twin boys, hurtling toward a past she'd long since...
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