Rabbit's Foot

<p>Winter Chicago 1920: They planned to meet at midnight. They would run off together and marry. But something went wrong.</p><p>A story of two lovers . . .</p><p>For young Nathan Devlin and Julia Tharpe that missed meeting cleaves their relationship and sunders their lives. Nathan goes to prison bitter blaming Julia for lack of resolve. Julia continues with her career equally bitter blaming him for unfaithfulness.</p><p>Years later Julia learns the truth of that night’s failed elopement and of the deception behind it. She sets out to find Nathan now an escaped fugitive. Her search leads her in 1955 to the small farm town of Windmill Indiana. There Nathan still bitter at Julia at his luck and at the world at large is avenging himself on the hapless townspeople in a peculiar way: With magic.</p><p>. . . And seven stories of supernatural mischief . . .</p><p>For Nathan owns a collection of powerful objects which he now in a final act of malice sells to unwary townsfolk. To his seven “customers” ranging from a grade-school girl to an aging charity-home couple these ordinary-looking purchases quickly prove useful. Then things get out of hand . . .</p><p>. . . All unfold to a climax in quiet out-of-the-way Windmill Indiana.</p><p>Through these seven unfolding fantasy stories is woven in flashbacks the decades-long story of Julia and Nathan’s complex love affair . . . Their cruel betrayal by others . . . Their years apart . . . Their final reconciliation . . . And a secret finally revealed that will bind them once more.</p><p>Windmill Indiana. Where bad things happen to a good town.</p><p>Books in the Windmill Indiana series</p><p>Welcome to Windmill        Rabbit’s Foot<br />Sweet Dreams                    Woman in the Rain</p><p>Contact the author at jvshepherd1@gmail.com</p><p>Cover photo by Judy Butz</p>