Publisher Description
Follow Emily’s journey to self-discovery, community, spirit, and love. A contemporary magic-realism romance.
This is the year Emily Ross takes control of her destiny and learns to deliberately shape the future. Emily has always known she is different. She attracts spirits, has prophetic dreams, and can sense people’s thoughts. Longing to fit in, she hides her true self. But this changes when she takes a job at the fabulous curio shop owned by Henry Paradis, an occult scholar who becomes her spiritual mentor. Recognizing her talents as the valuable gifts they are, Henry teaches Emily to accept her magical nature and “look forward.” Emily chooses the path to light. She finds lifelong friends, falls in love, learns the power of desire and intention, faces her worst fears, and is swept toward awakening.
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“Gail Cleare delivers a solid debut novel, Destined. Ms. Cleare’s characters are well-drawn and likeable, her plot and ideas spectacularly original. Enjoy!”
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Patricia Grasso, author of Marrying the Marquis
About Gail Cleare
USA Today bestselling author Gail Cleare used to write for newspapers, magazines, ad agencies, Fortune 50 companies, and AOL. Now she writes fiction, and lives on an eighteenth century farm in Massachusetts with her family and dogs, cats, chickens, black bears, blue herons, rushing streams, and wide, windy skies. She’s into organic vegetable gardening, and can often be found stalking wild creatures with a 300mm lens.
Cleare’s debut novel is Destined: a Novel of the Tarot (2011), a magic realism romance. The audiobook, featuring narrator Marnye Young, will be released in 2019. Her second novel, USA Today bestseller The Taste of Air (2016), is a women’s fiction family drama, and in 2017 it won Readers’ Favorite awards for the book and the audiobook. Love & Chocolate, a romance with recipes, is a new romantic comedy released in the fall of 2018. It’s the first volume of a trilogy featuring the Dumas family and their restaurant, The Three Chocolatiers.
For the latest news, visit GailCleare.com or Gail’s Facebook page at facebook.com/GailCleareAuthor.
About Marnye Young
Marnye Young is a SOVAS award–winning narrator for New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling authors. A SAG-AFTRA voice, stage, and screen actor, she has spent her life in the South, Midwest, and North. When she isn’t narrating, she’s fishing, following NASCAR, volunteering, raising chickens, and “mom“ing her identical twins.