The Fortune Teller: A Novel - 9781250099778

NOW A USA TODAY AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of The Memory Painter comes a sweeping and suspenseful tale of romance, fate, and fortune. Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house, deciphering ancient textsùand 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 SemeleÆs life. But what happened to the tarot deck? As the mystery of her connection to its story deepens, Semele canÆt shake the feeling that sheÆs 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 thereÆs more to SemeleÆs 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 interfereùsomeone who knows the cards exist, and that the Bossard manuscript is tied to her. Semele realizes itÆs 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.

• | Author: Gwendolyn Womack
• | Publisher: Picador
• | Publication Date: Jun 06, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1250099773
• | ISBN-13: 9781250099778