As a child, Jolene learns she has a gift: She can see a person's fate. It appears as a golden charm around their neck.She doesn't want her gift. She wants a normal life-a job, a husband, and kids.Now, after finding the perfect man, Jolene can't get pregnant. She makes a deal with the lady in the wall, then follows a strange professor into the land of creole fairy courts.What must she sacrifice there to make her dreams come true?Includes the first chapter of a novel set in this same world, "Zydeco Queen and the Creole Fairy Courts." Leah Cutter writes page-turning, wildly imaginative fiction set in exotic locations, such as a magical New Orleans, the ancient Orient, rural Kentucky, Seattle, Minneapolis, and many others.She writes fantasy, science fiction, mystery, literary, and horror fiction. Her short fiction has been published in magazines like "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine" and "Talebones", anthologies like Fiction River, and on the web. Her long fiction has been published both by New York publishers as well as small presses.Read more books by Leah Cutter at www.KnottedRoadPress.com.Follow her blog at www.LeahCutter.com.
