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For a second chance on life, come to The Two Sisters' Caf
Portal Books
September 2010
On Sale: September 1, 2010
Featuring: Sarah Curtis; Vannie May; Alma May
371 pages
ISBN: 0984123601
EAN: 9780984123609
Hardcover
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Fantasy | Women's Fiction
In a 50βs diner called The Two Sisters' CafΓ© in northern Kentucky, sisters Alma and Vannie May run a unique business. If your luck has run out and you're looking for a second chance on life you might find yourself at one of the sisters' back booths. Or you might witness miracles, your own or those of others, without asking and find yourself changed if only just a little. But even the sisters find their hands full when a desperate man barges in on them during the thickest snowstorm in local history and sets fate to rolling like never before. When the storm clears the sisters realize they have disrupted the lives of the local bootlegger's family and seek to make amends by hiring his eldest daughter to work at the cafΓ©. The girl's apprenticeship turns out to be more than any of them had bargained for as the fledgling young magician first assists the sisters as they perform works of beneficent, transformational magic within the Willow Creek community, then begins to develop her own talents in that art. Meanwhile her father's rage escalates until it threatens not only her life but the lives of her mother and siblings as well. Instead of retreating, however, the sisters and their foul-speaking, raggedy-feathered old parrot lead Sarah into the very heart of magic where they show her that the valiant path, no matter how daunting, is the only one that can ever lead to safety and that a magician's truest test lies in assuming responsibility for her own life.
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