Fantasy, Mainstream, Paranormal
Can a man's and woman's love, a young girl's belief in magic, and modern psychotherapy come together to fulfill the dying wish of a faery queen?
Can a man's and woman's love, a young girl's belief in magic, and modern psychotherapy come together to fulfill the dying wish of a faery queen?
That's the last thing on Butch Thomas's list of possibilities as he struggles to understand the dreams that have been tormenting him. It's also the last thing on Julia Austen's list as she tries to steer herself and her twelve-year-old daughter, Daisy, through an ugly divorce from a violent man.
But when the lives of these three people converge in a therapist's waiting room, the wonders of a distant time and place seem more and more to hold the key to their salvation. First, however, they must believe....
“Is this a troop of the Dynion Mwyn?” he ventured to ask, “of the race Tylwyth Teg?”
“Yes.”
“Please, allow me to see you.”
“You can and will see only as much as you are able-no more, no less. Most men do not see us at all. But you are not like most men, Myklwyn.”
Ah, but I am, he thought. Most men feel pain. And all men die.
A vast weariness overcame him, and he let his battered body relax into the crude bed of straw. His pain seemed to be seeping into it. For this, he was grateful.
“Not yet, cousin,” his companion whispered, close to his ear. “First you must remember.”
He no longer wished to. It would be too agonizing. Nearly oblivious, he merely exhaled his answer. “Why?”
“Because it will bring you both peace and a sense of purpose before you begin the last, most wondrous leg of your journey. If we never face our shortcomings and learn the nature of our errors, and never take that knowledge to heart, we can never have hope of correcting those errors. And such correction is the key to a cleansing of the soul that leads to true peace in the afterlife.”
“Redemption,” Myklwyn sighed, not knowing-or caring-why that particular word had issued from his mouth.
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K.Z. Snow
Rated: The Curtain Wall
Length: Bedtime Story
Price: 3.99
ISBN: 1-60180-066-5
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