Clinical psychologist Beatrice Bird has always had a touch
of “second sight,” a benign and occasionally useful talent for lucky guesses. An
impulsive experiment with psychedelics during the Haight-Ashbury era transforms
her intuitive gift. Now she sees ghostly figures attached to living people,
embodiments of abuse, terror, and guilt. As the years pass, these
manifestations become increasingly difficult to endure. She flees to a remote
island community, where her only social contacts are a few nuns and a pair of opinionated
cows. Just as she settles in to a life of isolation, her life collides with
that of another refugee. Timid Anne Iredale is clearly on the run, willing to
go to any lengths to hide her identity as the wife of a powerful judge.
Beatrice’s gift, however, reveals the most horrific phantoms yet: a mewling
child clinging to Anne and a specter of unalloyed evil looming over them both.
Soon the two are thrown together on a journey of courage, healing, and
redemption.
Morgan tackles complex and difficult issues with compassion,
intelligence, and page-turning drama. The story unfolds like a spiral, circling
through two very different lives, past and present, peeling away layers of illusion
and façade until they are woven together in a triumphant, deeply moving unity.
Clear your schedule before opening this book, because once you start reading,
you won’t want to put it down!
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