Memory

Magic, some believe, comes from evil. Others say it is linked to what is divine. Its source remains a mystery with one thing undisputable - magic is inherited through blood. In 1989, young aspiring archeologist Frances Chance uncovers the dig of a lifetime. In the jungles of Uganda, a raging thunderstorm unearths a most unusual site - a huge circle of caking mud composed of the bones of hundreds of beasts and at its center an ancient cylindrical artifact with perplexing glyphs - an artifact that will ruin Frances' reputation and threaten the life of his yet born daughter, Memory. Decades later, wildlife photographer Memory Chance seems to attract strange events. While on location in Africa, a series of animal attacks slaughter her co-workers while leaving her unharmed. Local tribes think she's a witch with supernatural powers. They're closer to the truth than Memory knows. Shake up Dean Koontz with Jennifer McMahon, and you will get Feuerstein's novel, which melds magical realism with the mystery genre for a psychological thriller with an ecological bent.