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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Tor Books
Publication date April 20, 2005
Pages 400
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780765315137
ISBN-10 0765315130
Dimensions 1 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight 1.26 lbs.
Original list price $25.99
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Summary
Remembering her exotic Las Vegas, New Mexico childhood, the flamboyant mother who abandoned her, and the foster parents who agreed to change their identities in order to adopt her, Mira Fenn returns to the home of her past and discovers her own latent powers.
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Middle-aged Mira Fenn knows she has an uncomfortably exotic past. As a small girl, she lived in a ornate old house in tiny Las Vegas, New Mexico, tended by oddly silent servant women and ruled by her coldly flamboyant mother Colette. When Mira was nine, Colette went on one of her unexplained trips, only this time she never returned.

Placed with foster parents, Mira was raised in Ohio, normal save for her passion for color. On gaining adulthood, she learned that she still owned the New Mexico house. She also learned that, as a condition of being allowed to adopt her, Mira's foster parents had agreed to change their name, move to another state, and never ask why.

Years later, going through family papers after the deaths of her elderly foster parents, Mira finds documents that pique her curiosity about her vanished mother and the reasons behind her strange childhood and adoption.

Travelling back to New Mexico, she finds the house is and isn't as she remembers it. Inside, it's much the same. Outside, it's been painted in innumerable colors. As Mira continues to investigate her mother's life, events take stranger and stranger turns. The silent women reappear. Even as Mira begins to suspect the power to which she may be heir, the house itself appears to be waking up...

Shot through with magic and the atmosphere of the Southwest, this singular fantasy novel has all the storytelling vigor of Jane Lindskold's very popular Firekeeper series.



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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780765309372
 
from Tor Books (May 1, 2005)
9780765309372 | details & prices | 384400 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.55 lbs | List price $25.95
About: Remembering her exotic Las Vegas, New Mexico childhood, the flamboyant mother who abandoned her, and the foster parents who agreed to change their identities in order to adopt her, Mira Fenn returns to the home of her past and discovers her own latent powers.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780765315137 Book cover for 9780765348241
 
Reprint edition from Tor Fantasy (May 30, 2006)
9780765348241 | details & prices | 451 pages | 4.00 × 6.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $7.99
About: Remembering her exotic Las Vegas childhood, the flamboyant mother who abandoned her, and the foster parents who agreed to change their identities in order to adopt her, Mira Fenn returns to the home of her past and discovers her own latent powers.
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from Tor Books (April 20, 2005)
9780765315137 | details & prices | 400 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.26 lbs | List price $25.99
About: Remembering her exotic Las Vegas, New Mexico childhood, the flamboyant mother who abandoned her, and the foster parents who agreed to change their identities in order to adopt her, Mira Fenn returns to the home of her past and discovers her own latent powers.

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