Manfred's Folly (e-book) (used book) | Patsy Stanley | bookbook.eu

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Fleeing his evil family, Timmon moves into the desert store at ten years old. Timmon is double Sighted. Timmon's palate is impeccable, his sense of smell keen. He is a calm, positive soul, surviving under an evil Shadow. He is beloved by all the desert store.

Timmon's father and brothers are in prison for life. His mother, who is Sighted, and his four sisters, who are not, despise Timmon's Sighted Goodness, and actively want to see him dead. In a final confront, his sisters and mother and her new partner, Vance Romaine, use their hatred and psychic abilities to destroy everything around the desert store. Then they flee to the haunted, evil Dolly Manfred mansion in Colorado, built long ago by an evil ancestor of Mina's. A year later, Timmon is summoned to Gitwell, Colorado, to look a a new property he was mysteriously deeded. He know nothing about where his mother is and doesn't want to. The pain of what happened at the desert store is is still too much. Gifted in different ways, two wounded your men, Beck and Shem, are led to Gitwell. Timmon, Shem, and Beck have no idea that the reclamation and redemption of their lost, bruised childhoods await them in a mighty, tender moment of convergence at the edge of what might be the flattest field in the world.The edge of that field lies at the end of Lou Cornfield's innocent little cottage and the evil ancient mansion, Manfred's Folly, a mile away as the crow flies. This is not your usual shallow, feel good romance book, all neat and tidy, tied up in a formulated package. This is a story about a fight between good and evil, about three others and their sons' battles for redemption and forgiveness. Building intensity and depth from the first page, the story leads the reader through the characters' lives to a stunning ending of forgiveness and redemption. This is a book that takes a different look at love and how it operates in our world.