Illusion: A NovelFrank Peretti
Howard Books, March 2012
ISBN: 978-1439192672
Frank Peretti has crafted a rich, rewarding story of love and life, loss and restoration, full of twists and mystery.Exceptionally well written, Illusion will soon prove another Peretti classic.
Dane and Mandy Collins, a popular magic act for 40 years, are tragically separated by a car wreck that claims Mandy’s life. As Dane mourns and tries to rebuild his life without her, Mandy suddenly wakes up in the present as the nineteen-year-old she was in 1970 with only the memories she had then.
Confused and a little hysterical, Mandy is confined to a mental ward. When she discovers a magical ability to pass through time and space, she manages to escape the ward and use her new, mysterious powers to make a living performing magic in a local coffee shop.
Retired, but interested in discovering new talent, Dane ventures into the coffee shop to see this new act. He isn’t prepared for what he finds. Not only is the magic he sees beyond his explanation, but more than anything, he is emotionally devastated by this teenager who is, in every aspect, identical to the young woman he first met and married forty years earlier.
They begin a furtive relationship as mentor and protégée, but even as Dane tries to sort out who she really is and she tries to understand why she is drawn to him, they are watched by secretive interests who not only possess the answers to Mandy’s powers and misplacement in time but also the ability to decide what will become of her.
FRANK PERETTI is the author of This Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness, The Oath, and many more. There are more than 12 million copies of his novels in print. He lives with his wife in the Western United States.
ISBN: 978-1439192672; ISBN10: 1439192677; Imprint: Howard Books; On Sale: 3/6/2012; Format: Hardcover; Pages: 512; $26.99
