Captain Vix is looking through her treasure chest in search of a special cup. It once belonged to Marie Antoinette. She must find it before the next moonrise for the King (down under).
This is the payment the captain must forfeit to keep the crew and passengers safe from the swarm of merfolk who wish to steal souls.
In one of the boxes of treasure, the captain comes across this gem that you can take for keeping...
by Christine Wade
Set in the Catskills on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Seven Locks is a spare, haunting, and beautifully written debut for readers who loved The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.
In the years before the American Revolution, a woman’s husband mysteriously disappears without a trace, abandoning her and her children on their farm at the foot of the Catskill Mountains. At first many believe that the farm wife, who has the reputation of being a scold, has driven her husband away. But as the strange circumstances of his disappearance circulate, a darker story begins to unfold, sending the lost man's wife on a desperate journey to find the means and self-reliance to ensure her family’s survival.
Inspired by a famous American folktale, Seven Locks is an ambitious and poignant exploration of family love, secrets, and misunderstandings, and of the inner and outer lives of the American frontier at the end of the eigtheenth century.
In this lyrical and complex book, which opens with a mystery and ends with a literary twist, Wade creates a rich, imaginative and tactile evocation of life and times in the historical Hudson River Valley, where the lines between myth and reality fade in the wilderness beyond the small towns, while an American nation struggles to emerge.
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image source: Shell-shaped cup, ca. 1650 and ca. 1685. Cup (Byzantium): sardonyx, 10th–11th century, with later additions. Mounts (Paris, France): enameled gold, gilt copper, diamonds, sapphires, and rubies. Musée du Louvre, Département des Objets d’Art, MR 123. © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY / Daniel Arnaudet
