TITLE: Finding
the Raven
RELEASE DATE:
June 15, 2016
AUTHOR: Patty
Dickson Pieczka
KEYWORDS: Raven, Finding the Raven, 1904, St. Louis World's Fair,
Fiction, Historical Fiction
CATEGORIES:
Historical Fiction
PAGE COUNT: 292
ISBN: 978-1530797974 & 1530797977
IMPRINT: White Stag
ONE LINER:
A story
of murder, betrayal and redemption as two young women struggle for survival
against a backdrop of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
SYNOPSIS:
When
Julia Dulac's father is murdered onstage and her inheritance is swindled
away, she must work through her grief and fear of poverty to find both the
killer and a means of survival with help from the Raven, a black crystal that
reveals images of past and future truths. While having the crystal appraised,
Julia finds love and her life takes unexpected turns through mystery and
betrayal against the backdrop of the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.
Through
the boarding house window, Julia overhears an argument between Rose and her
wealthy father over Rose's illegitimate pregnancy. He drops Rose off, saying he
will return in one year, that she must be either single and childless or
respectably married. Though from completely different backgrounds, Julia and
Rose become fast friends, facing lessons of survival and redemption as their
fates become irrevocably entwined.
INTERVIEW WITH CLARICE D'ARBONNIER, 1904
SB: Miss D'Arbonnier, my name is Simon Bunch,
and I'm with the World's Fair Newsletter,
which will appear in the Sunday edition of the St. Louis Post Dispatch. You've been developing quite a reputation
as a fortuneteller here at the fair, so I'll begin by asking how you first
discovered your "abilities."
CD: The blood moon reached down and stole my
man. He stopped breathing right there in my arms with those evil red handprints
around his neck. Ever since then, I hear his voice. He tells me things through
the wind in the leaves.
SB: You expect our readers to believe. . .
CD: I know where your grandpa hid that cashbox.
SB: What? How could you know anything about
that?
CD: I send my shadow out into the night, and it
brings back secrets. The river whispers into my ear, and the spirits visit my
dreams.
SB: But surely you must know how this sounds to
our readers.
CD: Let it sound like anything you want. I know
what I know.
SB: Where's the cashbox?
CD: Aren't you supposed to be asking about my
work?
SB: Alright, let's get back on track. Are you
from the St. Louis area?
CD: No. I'm from New Orleans. But I'm thinking
of staying on here when the fair is over this winter. Nothing is as it seems
here. People need my help.
SB: When you say, "nothing is as it
seems?" Do you refer to the city government?
CD: If I am, I wouldn't tell you.
SB: Fair enough, I suppose. Do you consider
these "talents" to be more of a blessing or a curse?
CD: If you don't stop wiggling your fingers at
me, they might catch fire.
SB: Answer the question, please, Miss
D'Arbonnier.
CD: Once the ghosts came into my life, it's hard
to get any peace. They have no manners — don't care whether I'm trying to sleep
or if I'm in the middle of changing my dress. But they keep me from evil and
tell me what I need to know. Mostly, it's a gift.
SB: Does this "gift" extend to
yourself as well as other people? Did you know your "friend" was in
trouble?
CD: I warned you about those fingers. But you're
right, the vision is clearer at a distance. I'm a lot like all the others. I
don't want to know what my heart tells me. Truth is the brightest light, and
sometimes it blinds us to look at it.
SB: Many people are skeptical about your line of
work. Some go as far as to say you're a fake.
CD: Say that again, and I'll turn you into a
crawdad. . . . Oh, and look under the clothesline pole in your backyard.
SB: Really? Oh yes, yes I will! Thank you, Miss D'Arbonnier,
you've been most informative.
AUTHOR BIO:
Patty Dickson Pieczka's second book, Painting the
Egret's Echo,, won the Library of Poetry Book Award from Bitter Oleander
Press. Other books are Lacing through Time, and Word Paintings. Winner
of the Francis Locke Memorial Poetry Contest, the I SPS contest, and the Maria
W. Faust Sonnet Contest, she's
contributed to over fifty journals and graduated from Southern Illinois
University's creative writing program.
AUTHOR LINKS: http://www.pattywrites.net/
http://www.facebook.com/pattydicksonpieczka
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