The Fortune Teller's Daughter by Jordan Bell

I didn't try anything more adventurous than some short stories and a lot of newsletters for various things I belonged to until we moved to Martha's Vineyard and I bought my first computer. This was, as I recall, an amorphous thinly plotted excercise in putting sentences together and has mercifully disappeared in some move or another. Although I majored in English, I didn't focus on writing and it wasn't really until I was first married that I hauled out my old Olivetti and began to thump away at my first novel. For reasons I cannot really fathom, I never pursued writing as a vocation. Those are my earliest memories of my secret life of writing. I pounded out the worst kind of adolescent drivel, imposing my imaginary self on television heroes of the time: Bonanza, Man from U.N.C.L.E. It weighed about twenty pounds and was probably thirty years old. When I was about twelve, I bought a used Olivetti manual typewriter from a little hole in the wall office machine place in Middletown, CT called Peter's Typewriters. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.įrom the time I was a little girl, the word 'writer' held a special significance to me.

Now, she must face the gift of 'seeing' she's inherited but rejected - for only then can she learn the truth of

Then Sabine 'sees' a tragic event that occurred in Dan's family more than three hundred years ago, which is linked to a painful secret from which he's been unable to break free. Things get more complicated when Ruby appears, finally ready to answer her daughter's lifelong questions about their mysterious past. But when Danforth Smith returns to his hometown, reluctantly putting his career on hold to deal with family affairs, Sabine faces the dilemma of falling in love with a man anxious to leave the only place she has ever called home. After years of moving around with her footloose mother, fortune teller Madame Ruby, Sabine Heartwood settles in the quiet town of Moose River Junction. From acclaimed author Susan Wilson comes a powerful and moving story of the ties that bind families and lovers together - and the dreams and passions that show how far those ties can reach.

The Fortune Teller's Daughter by Jordan Bell