Tara Sheridan wants nothing more than to stay in the
solitude of her
Tennessee cabin, far away from her short profiler career
with the
Special Projects division and the horrific case that left her
physically and emotionally scarred for life. But when Sophia, a
Daughter of Delphi and Tara's mother's best friend, shows up
asking
Tara to find a missing scientist, the young woman with the
talent for
communicating with the Tarot takes the case.
Investigating the remains of Dr. Magnusson's particle
accelerator and
laboratory with Agent Harry Li, Tara fights to control her
fears and
discover a clue of what happened to the lab and the missing
scientist.
Stonewalled by the military and her former boss, Tara and
Harry decide
to investigate Magnusson's personal life. Able to retrieve the
doctor's laptop, the two agents save Cassie and Maggie,
Magnusson's
daughter and chocolate lab, from a professional hit,
although Tara is
wounded in their escape. Taking shelter at Harry's foster
father's
isolated RV, Tara consults her Tarot deck, trying to
discover the best
path to follow, both for herself and the investigation. What
she reads
in the cards is both encouraging and terrifying, for Cassie
is not the
only one with an killer after her. An ambitious Daughter of
Delphi has
targeted Tara and is using earth power to track the group no
matter
where they go.
I thoroughly enjoyed DARK ORACLE. While it initially seemed
to be the
second in a series, Tara's back-story is slowly revealed and
the novel
is self-contained. Tara is a fully realized character, and
her inner
growth as well as the way her relationship develops with
Harry has an
emotional depth that is completely believable. The mix of
science and
special abilities is a different combination from other urban
fantasies. I know little about the Tarot, but the author
(AKA Laura
Bickle) treated Tara's readings with a delicate touch,
letting the
reader understand why Tara interpreted the cards the way she
did, as
well as giving enough of a description of the illustrations
that the
reader could come to their own conclusions. I highly
recommend DARK ORACLE, and hope to see more of Tara's
readings in the future.
TARA SHERIDAN HAS A GIFT . . . AND IT ALMOST KILLED HER.
As a criminal profiler, Tara used science
and her intuitive skill at Tarot card divination to track
down the dangerous and depraved, including the serial killer
who left her scarred from head to toe. Since that savage
attack, Tara has been a recluse. But now an ancient secret
society known as Delphi’s Daughters has asked for her help
in locating missing scientist Lowell Magnusson. And Tara,
armed with her Tarot deck, her .38, and a stack of
misgivings, agrees to try.
Tara immediately senses
there is far more at stake than one man’s life. At his
government lab in the New Mexico desert, Magnusson had
developed groundbreaking technology with terrifying
potential. Working alongside the brusque but charismatic
agent Harry Li, Tara discovers that Magnusson’s daughter,
Cassie, has knowledge that makes her a target too. The more
Tara sees into the future, the more there is to fear. She
knows she has to protect Cassie. But there may be no way to
protect herself—from the enemies circling around her, or
from the long-buried powers stirring to life within. . . .
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