"You've been burned. Again." With those four words Marianne Engle enters the life of our unnamed and fire-ravaged narrator and begins telling him the most fantastic story he's ever heard. The internationally-renowned and possibly mentally unstable sculptor believes that she and the narrator have known and loved each before, seven-hundred years ago.

Wrapped around the story of their original encounter Marianne slips in the story of four other tragic but important lovers; every bit of information gleaned and gathered by the narrator for a battle that is coming all too soon. As the narrator's healing and rehabilitation progresses, Marianne Engle's sculpting takes on a drive that begins to destroy her body but is it guided by the voice of God or schizophrenia?

Andrew Davidson's stellar debut novel will have you questioning the power of love and faith from the first to the last page.
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Publisher: Doubleday Publishing
Pub. Date: August 05, 2008
ISBN-13: 9780385524940