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Fay Morgan can see into the future. The trouble sometimes she sees things she would rather not see. Like her only daughter Lizzie leaving for California was a handsome young Brazilian, and cutting Fay out of her life forever. Fay knows who is too - he's the devil from Tarot Pack.Just when she needs all her psychic powers to fight, her policeman lover Arnie asks for help on a case. 27 children have been kidnapped at the fairground and Arnie wants her to tell him where they are. But all the time she's struggling to see the missing children in mind, and end the tournament of their parents, she is having a terrifying vision of her own the most painful vision a mother can have of a world where, for her daughter, she no longer exists.
A psychic mother must navigate a high-stakes kidnapping investigation while simultaneously confronting a devastating premonition regarding her own daughter's estrangement. Fay Morgan, a woman gifted with the ability to foresee future events, finds her personal and professional lives colliding in a volatile manner. As she attempts to assist her partner, a policeman named Arnie, in locating twenty-seven missing children, she is haunted by a vision of her daughter, Lizzie, abandoning her for a man she identifies as a malevolent figure. The narrative forces Fay to balance the urgent, external pressure of a criminal investigation against the internal, emotional turmoil of a mother facing the potential loss of her child.
This work presents a narrative that leans heavily into the psychological strain of its protagonist, using the supernatural element of clairvoyance to heighten the stakes of a standard procedural mystery. The premise suggests a focus on the intersection of maternal anxiety and the burden of unwanted knowledge, framing the psychic ability not as a gift but as a source of profound personal conflict. Readers are likely to find the tension between the public crisis of the missing children and the private tragedy of the protagonist's family life to be the primary driver of the pacing. The genre conventions point to a story that prioritizes character interiority and the emotional weight of foresight over traditional investigative action sequences.
Page Count:
430
Publication Date:
1988-01-01
Publisher:
Collins
ISBN-10:
0002232561
ISBN-13:
9780002232562
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