With their bestselling First North Americans series, the Gears have astounded an avid international audience of millions. Now these master storytellers turn to the American Southwest, to one of the most enigmatic people to ever inhabit this continent--the Anasazi. At its pinnacle in A.D. 1150, their
The Visitant
β Scribed by Megan Chance
- Publisher
- Lake Union Publishing
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 201 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781503945173
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
After she nearly ruins her family with a terrible misstep, Elena Spira is sent to Venice to escape disgrace and to atone by caring for the ailing Samuel Farber. But the crumbling and decaying Caβ Basilio palazzo, where Samuel is ensconced, holds tragic secrets, and little does Elena know how profoundly they will impact her. Soon she begins to sense that she is being watched by something. And when Samuel begins to have hallucinations that make him violent and unpredictable, she canβt deny sheβs in mortal danger.
Then impoverished nobleman Nero Basilio, Samuelβs closest friend and the owner of the palazzo, arrives. Elena finds herself entangled with both men in a world where the past seeps into the present and nothing is as it seems. As Elena struggles to discover the haunting truth before it destroys her, a dark force seems to hold Samuel and the Basilio in thrallβis it madness, or something more sinister?
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