It begins with a strange tightness in her chest, followed by a vision. A boy she doesn’t recognize. A man falling through ice. Images of someone who has already passed. And finally the serene face of Honora, her deceased sister.
From the earliest moments of her childhood, Mabel Rowbotham knows that she is different. She is struck by visions and premonitions that disturb her dreams, haunt her waking hours and stay with her long after she emigrates from her English home to the Canadian Prairies. Although she desperately wants to understand these powerful episodes, Mabel tries to hide her gift behind a normal life, a normal job and a normal marriage.
But Mabel is not destined to be normal. Her desire to understand herself and her place in the world leads her into the arms of the Brother, XII—founder of a Utopian Spiritualist colony on the eastern shores of Vancouver Island. It is here that Mabel fully transforms into the complicated and enigmatic
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