Illusion: A Novel by Frank Peretti (English) Paperback Book

Description: Illusion by Frank Peretti A stunning new thriller from the father of Christian fiction--a grieving husband encounters a teen identical to his dead wife...in face, name, and magical skills. Little does he know that his wife has somehow traveled through time. When they reunite, they must decide what their future is. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A stunning new thriller from the father of Christian fiction--a grieving husband encounters a teen identical to his dead wife...in face, name, and magical skills. In a world where nothing is as it seems, anything is possible. DANE AND MANDY, a popular magic act for forty years, are tragically separated by a car wreck that claims Mandys life--or so everyone thinks. Even as Dane mourns, Mandy awakes in the present as the nineteen-year-old she was in 1970. Distraught and disoriented in what to her is the future, she is confined to a mental ward until she discovers a magical ability to pass invisibly through time and space to escape. Alone in a strange world, she uses her mysterious powers to eke out a living, performing magic on the streets and in a quaint coffee shop. Hoping to discover a new talent, Dane ventures into the shop and is transfixed by the illusions that even he, a seasoned professional, cannot explain. But more than anything, he is devastated by this teenager who doesnt know him, is certainly not in love with him, but is in every respect identical to the young beauty he first met and married some forty years earlier. They begin a furtive relationship as mentor and protégée, but even as Dane tries to sort out who she really is and she tries to understand why she is drawn to him, they are watched by secretive interests who not only possess the answers to Mandys powers and misplacement in time but also the roguish ability to decide what will become of her. Exceptionally well written, full of twists and mystery, Illusion will soon prove another Peretti classic. Author Biography With more than 14 million books in print, Frank E. Peretti is perhaps the most recognized name in Christian fiction. He lives in northern Idaho with his wife, Barbara. Review "Frank Peretti is a master storyteller. His novels stay with you a lifetime, drawing you closer to God and the truth in His word." --Karen Kingsbury, New York Times bestselling author--Karen Kingsbury, New York Times bestselling author Review Quote "Frank Peretti may just be the master storyteller of our timeusing modern metaphors and fresh images, this remarkable writer helps us visualize the unseen world in ways we never quite pictured before." Joni Eareckson Tada Excerpt from Book Illusion chapter 1 Mandy was gone. She went quietly, her body still, and Dane was at her bedside to see her go. The ICU physician said it was inevitable, only a matter of minutes once they removed the ventilator, and so it was. Her heart went into premature ventricular contractions, stopped, restarted momentarily, and then the line on the heart monitor went flat. It happened more quickly than anyone expected. She was an organ donor, so she had to be removed immediately for procurement. Dane touched her hand to say good-bye, and blood and skin came off on his fingers. A nurse wheeled him out of the room. She found a secluded corner out on the fourth floor patio, a place with a view of the city and shade from the Nevada sun, and left him to grieve. Now, try as he might to fathom such feelings, grief and horror were inseparably mixed. When he wiped his tears, her blood smeared his face. When he tried to envision how she gladdened whenever she saw him, how she would tilt her head and shrug one shoulder and her eyes would sparkle as she broke into that smile, he would see her through the blackening glass, crumpled over the steering wheel, the deflated airbag curling at the edges, melting into her face. A handkerchief made careful passes over his face below and around his eyes. Arnie was trying to clean him up. Dane couldnt say anything; he just let him do it. The smell under his robe found his attention: sweat, antiseptics, gauze, bandages. His right shoulder still felt on fire, only, thanks to the painkillers, on fire somewhere else far away. Not a serious burn, they told him, so he kept telling himself. The bruises ate away at him, little monsters sequestered against his bones, festering under all that blued flesh in his side, his right hip, his right shoulder. It hurt to sit in the wheelchair; it hurt more to walk. He broke again, covering his eyes to ward off the vision of her hair crinkling, vaporizing down to her scalp, steam and smoke rising through her blouse, flames licking through the broken glass, but it remained. Oh, God! Why? How could He change her so instantly from what she was--the woman, the saint, his lover with the laughing eyes, wacky humor, and wisdom of years--to what Dane had just seen perish on a bloodied gurney behind a curtain, sustained by tubes, monitors, machines? The images replayed. He thought he would vomit again. Arnie brought the pan and a towel close under his chin. He drew in a long, quaking breath, then another, then centered his mind on every breath that followed, commanding, controlling each one. Arnie put the pan aside and sat close, silent. Dane gave his weeping free rein; there could be no stopping it even as his bruises tortured him with every quake of his body. The moment passed, not in minutes but in breaths, thoughts, memories, wrenchings in his soul, until somewhere in his mind, just slightly removed from the visions, the soul pain, the hospital smells, and the painkillers, he took hold of what he already knew. He could hardly place the breath behind the words. "I am just so much going to miss her." Arnie blew his nose on the same handkerchief hed used to clean Danes face. "You may never finish saying good-bye. Maybe thats okay." He cleared his throat. "If it were me, I could never give her up." Dane noticed the move of the breeze over his face, the warmth of the sun on the patio. Birds flitted and chattered in the arbor. Mandy was about things like that. "I suppose there were many who loved her," Dane said. "But it was my arm she took to go to parties; she wrote her love notes for me; she chose to share my future when I didnt even have one." His vision blurred with fresh tears. "How did a guy like me rate a woman like her?" Arnie touched him on the left shoulder, the one that wouldnt hurt. "Thats the stuff you wanna remember." Arnie Harrington, his agent but mostly his friend, a little on the heavy side, still had some hair but not much, and had to be as old as Dane but didnt look it. How he found out thered been an accident Dane would have to ask him later. It was only now that Dane fully recognized he was here. He drew a breath to calm his insides and touched Arnies hand. "Thanks for coming." "Got a call from Jimmy Bryce over at the Mirage. He thought it was a rumor so he called me. I suppose I can call him back, but itll be all over town by now." "Guess itll be in the papers." "Guess theyre already writing it. Ill handle all of that." "Id appreciate it." Dane followed Arnies gaze toward the Las Vegas Strip, where every structure, object, entrance, and electric light vied for attention. It was no great revelation, but after all the years he and Mandy worked here, all he could see, all he cared to remember was the woman who remained real in such an unreal place. "I got way better than I deserved." "Well, yeah." "Forty years." "Like I said . . ." "Forty years . . ." The fact came alive as he lingered on it and salved the horrors from his mind, at least for now. With no effort at all the unfaded image of Mandy first setting foot in his life played before his eyes, the dove girl sitting in the front row who caught and held his eye . . . to the swelling, carnival sound of a gilded merry-go-round. Details ISBN1451669305 Author Frank Peretti Short Title ILLUSION Publisher Howard Books Language English ISBN-10 1451669305 ISBN-13 9781451669305 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 2012 Publication Date 2012-10-23 Imprint Howard Books Subtitle A Novel Pages 528 Audience General UK Release Date 2012-10-23 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160901670;

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