Author(s): WEBSTER Richard

Fiction

The year is 1860 and celebrated entertainer) illusionist) mind reader and world traveller) Monsieur Cardot) is in the bustling town of Auckland to perform his wondrous feats. Invited to dine with the Wainwright's) a family whose fortunes are on the rise) Monsieur Cardot consents to daughter Sarah Wainwright's request that he tell the future of each family member by reading their palms. And so begins the saga of a family that will be torn asunder through greed and ambition) of love unrequited and of love lost) of two brothers born into a life of privilege and possibilities whose radically different natures will pit' them against each other for life -with devastating consequences for all.