Queenie Landry’s job as a fortune teller at an amusement park pays the bills but it’s a far cry from the respectable psychic advisor role she once filled at the police station where the love of her life, Kirk Wallace, was a detective. A case went bad when she steered the team in the wrong direction and a woman died. Queenie experienced a horrific crisis of faith in her own abilities and pushed … everyone away.
Nine months later, alone and denying her psychic gift, she gives birth to a son and feels redeemed. But a happily-ever-after isn’t to be. Following a severe illness, Queenie wakes up eighteen months later only to be told her son died. Unable to handle her grief, she opens herself once more to her abilities, desperate to connect with her child. Resigned to telling fortunes at the park, she’s stunned when a man walks into her tent and she sees a vision of a woman he’s murdered. She realizes she has to contact Kirk again.
Kirk left under duress. Though he regrets his decision, he’s never forgotten Queenie or found anyone to replace her. Having to be the one to tell her about her son’s death all but destroyed him because he knew it would unhinge her and he isn’t sure how she’ll ever find stability again.
Unknown to either of them, someone has been watching her for a long time, someone who likes to play games with other people’s lives–as he has Queenie’s. But even he’s confused by the creepy spiders amassing all around her. What message are they trying to convey to her that she’s stubbornly refused to hear…and what price will she have to pay if she fails?
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I think many of us understand that when someone as close to us as a spouse, sibling, or child is missing, in our hearts we can feel that person’s presence or absence and know whether they are alive. Then we never stop searching. In Queenie’s case, a series of unfortunate events weakened her and she collapsed. Her psychic abilities were disregarded by the very people she had helped, including the police detective whom she had never told that her son was also his son. As vehemently as people insisted that Reese had died and been cremated while Queenie was hospitalized, and as hard as she worked in her Queen Seer job at the amusement park where for $5 one could get the answer to any question, Queenie continued to struggle with her own unanswered questions. Only her fellow amusement park workers gave her unconditional love and support, until one day a new little visitor to her tent literally turned her world around.
Using spiders as the messengers of hope for a young boy trapped in a life of abuse and loneliness is a brilliant plot line as, like many of us, Queenie has to question and overcome her aversion to arachnids in order to rescue the little boy whose image she sees when the first spider touches her fake crystal ball. As more and more spiders arrive to help, and with the help of our old and dear friends Maddy (Maddy’s Floor) and Stefan Kronos (Eyes to the Soul and just about every other Psychic Visions book), Queenie begins to understand the spiders’ communication method and their steadfast dedication to bringing her and the little boy together for both of their salvations.
I literally could not put this book down once I started reading it.
I love this series, they all stand alone but have a common thread. I had my ‘yes I knew it’ moment and an ‘omg I didn’t see that coming’ one too. The author keeps the reader guessing the whole way through. The two main characters have had a rough few years, they deserved an HEA ending. It was a tear jerker by the time I’d finished. If you love a good psychic thriller then I recommend you grab this one.
OMG.. so Dale Mayer is one of my favourite authors, and this book is one of the reasons why.
The story is a page turning, edge of your seat, gripping adventure.
Getting over my fear of spiders wasn’t easy, but the way she presents them in the story had me smiling and cheering them on.
Queenie is a psychic trying to maintain a connection to her dead son, and Kirk is a cop that was in a relationship with Queenie. Kirk doesn’t know the child was his.
I can’t even begin to put words to how fantastic this book is, so you’ll have to read it for yourself. You won’t be disappointed.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.