![]() ![]() When Daire awakens, she discovers she's restrained, and a doctor administers something to knock her out for the flight home to the U.S. As they wind through the Moroccan streets, Noël conjures the smells of goat grilling in the open air, exotic oils and jasmine, and the steady pulse of the gnaoua drum that induces Daire's first vision-a disturbing illusion of glowing people, decapitated heads and crows. ![]() The teen star of the film takes Daire out to celebrate. Daire, who narrates, has accompanied her mother, Jennika, a professional make-up artist, on location for a film. Readers meet Paloma's granddaughter in the next chapter, in Marrakesh on her 16th birthday. ![]() In a cryptic opening, a murder of crows circles a graveyard where Paloma Santos stands next to a casket, convinced "that her son's sudden death was no accident." The woman also senses in her son's girlfriend an unborn child "whose fate had long been foretold," and whose safety Paloma bears in mind as she removes herself from the funeral, vowing to re-enter the child's life when she turns 16. Alyson Noël (the Immortals series) mines her New Mexico setting and brings to life the land of enchantment in this kickoff to a quartet about Daire Santos, the reluctant heir to an ancient line of shamans. ![]()
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