When 6-year-old empath Leah Fern--once 'the youngest and very best fortune teller in the world'--is abandoned by her beautiful magician mother, she is consumed with longing for her mother's return. Until something bizarre happens: on her 21st birthday Leah receives an inheritance from someone she doesn't even know, and finds herself launched on a journey of magical discovery. It's a voyage that will spiral across the United States, Canada, into the Arctic Circle and beyond--and help her make her own life whole by piecing together the mystery surrounding her mother's disappearance.
year: 2022
call number/section: 1000
subjects: mothers and daughters, fiction, mother-daughter relationship, abandoned children, carnivals, inheritance and succession, magic, paranormal fiction, supernatural fiction