Giovanni's GiftImagine a scene of rural serenity, a night scene. Above the mountains surrounding this faraway place, the stars are a menagerie of silver flickering motes. Imagine a solitary ranch, a man and a woman asleep. It would be hard to fathom a purer vision of people at peace in the natural world. Who could foresee that this tranquility would be so brutally shattered by the night visitors? When Grant hears of the campaign of malice being waged against his only living relatives, he abandons Rome and a crumbling marriage to do what he can to help them. His brash confidence is quickly bruised as the night visits escalate in violence, and the death of Giovanni Trentas, a dear family friend found mutilated in a gorge above the ranch, takes on new meaning. When his aunt presents him with Giovanni's legacy - an old cigar box filled with letters, photos, and seemingly random knick-knacks - Grant finds himself in possession of a puzzle that might hold the answers to much more than Giovanni's death. Grant's unfolding passion for Giovanni's daughter, Helen, forces him to choose between loyalty and love as the night terrors come to their catastrophic end. |
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... sense . -Third eye , sixth sense . Edmé says the phone's dead . Henry walked alongside Noah and said nothing ; he and Noah had grown up together in so far as they were the same age and attended the same rural school , a clapboard ...
... sense . -Third eye , sixth sense . Edmé says the phone's dead . Henry walked alongside Noah and said nothing ; he and Noah had grown up together in so far as they were the same age and attended the same rural school , a clapboard ...
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... sense of Noah's su- periority in the matter of forensics and such - I mean , other than at a funeral , I had never even seen a dead body - did prevent me from debating him . It did not , however , inspire a shyness that would for- bid ...
... sense of Noah's su- periority in the matter of forensics and such - I mean , other than at a funeral , I had never even seen a dead body - did prevent me from debating him . It did not , however , inspire a shyness that would for- bid ...
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... sense , not respect . Did he say anything about me or my father ? " " Nothing about you . But he did say that he , meaning Tate himself , was innocent of anything having to do with your father . In fact , he implied that Henry wasn't so ...
... sense , not respect . Did he say anything about me or my father ? " " Nothing about you . But he did say that he , meaning Tate himself , was innocent of anything having to do with your father . In fact , he implied that Henry wasn't so ...
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