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Elf Gift
Something is happening. Something big.
In Ireland at the time of the potato famine, a young servant discovers that he is part of a mystery he could never have imagined. In modern San Francisco, two more unsuspecting people are drawn into the same vortex.
Crashing through the centuries, the mystery snares young and old, rich and poor, the religious and the skeptic. And sometimes, it carries those people along with it through the ages. People walk the earth for hundreds of years, burdened by knowlege they never wanted, and tormented by visions they can’t understand.
Some of the clues lie in plain sight, like the obscure form of a woman on the Bayeux Tapestry, one of the world’s greatest medieval works of art. Other times, the mystery makes itself known in more subtle ways. A scratch on the skin. An empty room.
Sister Mary Rose Harlowe and Broderick Ellis have never met, yet find themselves thrown together, racing to get answers that can prevent disasters and save countless lives. And just as they’ve solved the mystery, they discover that the most shocking revelation is about their own lives.
A secret can live forever, or it can hide forever. It can’t do both.
In Ireland at the time of the potato famine, a young servant discovers that he is part of a mystery he could never have imagined. In modern San Francisco, two more unsuspecting people are drawn into the same vortex.
Crashing through the centuries, the mystery snares young and old, rich and poor, the religious and the skeptic. And sometimes, it carries those people along with it through the ages. People walk the earth for hundreds of years, burdened by knowlege they never wanted, and tormented by visions they can’t understand.
Some of the clues lie in plain sight, like the obscure form of a woman on the Bayeux Tapestry, one of the world’s greatest medieval works of art. Other times, the mystery makes itself known in more subtle ways. A scratch on the skin. An empty room.
Sister Mary Rose Harlowe and Broderick Ellis have never met, yet find themselves thrown together, racing to get answers that can prevent disasters and save countless lives. And just as they’ve solved the mystery, they discover that the most shocking revelation is about their own lives.
A secret can live forever, or it can hide forever. It can’t do both.
309 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 9, 2012
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Bud Gundy
5 books18 followersIn addition to being a Lambda Literary Award finalist, Bud is an Executive Producer and on-air host for KQED, San Francisco's PBS and NPR affiliate. He's won two Emmy Awards and his novel Elf Gift was considered for inclusion on the Over the Rainbow list by the GLBT Round Table of the American Library Association. He is on Twitter but he rarely checks his feed.
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April 19, 2019
What a unique & engrossing book! I highly recommend it and am really hoping a sequel is in the works. Although the story has a satisfying conclusion I can’t help but want more. My only complaint is I wish the novel were longer & I hadn’t finished it yet. I only have one book left by this author and that saddens me because he is a very unique talent. I certainly hope he has more in the works.
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