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About the Book
The nether side of passion is madness.
Nathan Price is a college professor with crippling impairments, seeking escape from his prison of necessity. One day, in a package of seventeenth-century documents from Salem Village, he stumbles across a letter by his best friend, Jamie, who had disappeared six months before. The document is dated 1692—the height of the Witch Trials. The only potential lead: a single mention of Carthage, a tiny town in the Wisconsin northern highland.
The mystery catapults Nathan from Chicago to the Wisconsin wilderness. There, he meets Alanna, heir to an astonishing Mittel-European legacy of power and sacrifice. In her, and in the gentle townsfolk of Carthage, Nathan finds the refuge for which he has long yearned. But Simon, the town elder, is driven by demons of his own, and may well be entangled in Jamie's disappearance and that of several Carthaginians. As darkness stretches toward Alanna, Nathan may have no choice but to risk it all...
Moving from the grimness of Chicago's South Side to the Wisconsin hinterlands to seventeenth-century Salem, this is a story of love, of sacrifice, of terrible passions—and of two wounded souls quietly reaching for the deep peace of sanctuary.
About the Author
is a pseudonym. The author is a well-published university professor who has contended with mental illness all his life, and knows the beastie well. Hence the mask: As this novel's protagonist puts it, successful Passing is now a survival imperative for crazies like him. "Autumn in Carthage" developed, in large part, from his need to sing of this world he inhabits: The realm of the stranger, the odd one. The man standing at the window, bracing against the wind as he gazes in wonder at the light and comfort on the other side.
About the Book
One day a package arrives for Professor Nathan Price from his good friend and colleague, Jamie Mackinnon, whom he has not heard from in awhile. Inside the package are documents from the Salem Witch Trials and it includes a letter from Jamie and it is dated 1692. Nathan is skeptical, how can he have possibly gotten a letter dated so long ago from his friend? Carthage Wisconsin is mentioned in the letter so Nathan decides he wants to go to Carthage to see if he can find Jamie or find out what may have happened to him.
Carthage is a quaint little town in Northern Wisconsin with equally quaint characters as Nathan comes to find out, but there is a bit of mystery and sinister aspects to this small town and it's peoples. With some digging Nathan finds that all is not as it appears on the surface. He meets Alanna and develops strong feelings for her but she is secretive about the disappearance of Jamie and some other people. He is persistent and learns more than he had bargained for and more than he can wrap his brain around. What does Carthage have to do with the Salem Witch Trials and what does all this have to do with Jamie? These are mysteries that Nathan is determined to figure out.
I enjoyed this book, one, I am a fan of anything pertaining to the witch trials, and two, I happen to live in northern Wisconsin. It is not very often that my small town of Rhinelander is mentioned in any books so I was excited to read this one. The descriptions of the area were pretty close to the actual area and the author wrote in such a way that the book was hard to put down. There is mystery, murder, and time travel, all aspects of a fun story in my opinion, a little bit of everything to keep the reader turning the pages.
I received a copy of this book for review from www.thecadencegrp.com and was not monetarily compensated for my review.
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