The Fortune Teller: A Novel [Paperback]

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From the award-winning author ofThe Memory Paintercomes a sweeping and suspenseful tale of romance, fate, and fortune.

Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house, deciphering ancient textsand when she discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her career. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history, but as Semele delves further, she realizes the manuscript is more than it seems. Both a memoir and a prophecy, it appears to be the work of a powerful seer, describing devastating wars and natural disasters in detail thousands of years before they occurred.

The more she reads, the more the manuscript begins to affect Semeles life. But what happened to the tarot deck? As the mystery of her connection to its story deepens, Semele cant shake the feeling that shes being followed. Only one person can help her make sense of it all: her client, Theo Bossard. Yet Theo is arrogant and elusive, concealing secrets of his own, and theres more to Semeles desire to speak with him than she would like to admit. Can Semele even trust him?

The auction date is swiftly approaching, and someone wants to interferesomeone who knows the cards exist, and that the Bossard manuscript is tied to her. Semele realizes its up to her to stop them: the manuscript holds the key to a two-thousand-year-old secret, a secret someone will do anything to possess.

Another tale by Womack that cant be put down. Superb storytelling. Rounded characters. Stakes worth killingor dyingfor. This is summer reading for every season.New York Journal of Books

A heart-pounding page-turner...Womack is the Dan Brown for the tarot world.The Fortune Telleris a luscious and enchanting read. I highly recommend [it]. Benebell Wen,