Second Sight

<p>Born to an unwed mother who abandons her as a baby Rowan grows up possessing the strange ability to glimpse the future: births deaths fires floods--and the rise to power of Henry Tudor. She is plunged into the dangerous intrigues that swirl around the king's divorce attracting the malice of a churchman eager to advance his career by having her tried for witchcraft. The only way to prove her innocence is to delve into the mystery of her mother's disappearance--a trail that leads to the highest levels of the English aristocracy and to secrets never meant to be revealed. <em>Second Sight </em>is based on Mother Shipton the famous Witch of York a soothsayer who foretold events far in the future including the Great London Fire the wreck of the Spanish Armada and the carnage of World War I.</p>