Stray

<p>Taliesin MacGuire promises his grandmother he will discover why his father left thirty years ago and never returned to his family. Finn MacGuire was the seventh son of a seventh son and the legend of shapeshifter followed him throughout his life in Southwest Virginia.</p><p><br></p><p>Was Finn the good son? The unfaithful husband? The doting father? The charming uncle? The spoiled brother? The wolf or the lamb?</p><p><br></p><p>Tal finds few people have fond memories of his father and fewer want to talk. Finn left a backwash of heartbreak but no physical clues to his disappearance. Time sweeps away memories and paper trails.</p><p><br></p><p>With the help of his cousin Dr. Brigid MacGuire and a woman dredging her own past Cliodhna Fitz-Adams Tal searches for answers to set his grandmother's - and his - mind at ease about Finn's disappearance.</p><p><br></p><p>Echoes from Irish lore the Lost Colony and the Virginia witch trials weave strains of an ancient melody as Tal discovers that time silences the past and nonconformity is a howl in the night.</p>