In My Father's House »

This can't-put-it-down, time-travel novel won the Writer's Digest Award and Independent Press's First Prize for Fiction. A spirited young woman named Claire DuMond can't believe her otherwise healthy and youthful father would fall into a coma for no reason. Even his doctors are baffled. Claire suspects something sinister behind it and sets out to learn the truth. Clues lead her to the Caribbean island of Martinique where she meets a voodoo priest who helps her travel back in time into the dimension of mind. Claire soon finds herself in the middle of a white-knuckle drama playing itself out in the hours leading up to the catastrophic eruption of Mt. Pelée and the demise of St. Pierre and its 40,000 inhabitants, then known as 'The Little Paris of the Caribbean.' This calamity actually did happen, and the details are accurately depicted in this page-turner. In the words of one reviewer, Richard Fuller, 'Occasionally, perhaps even rarely, a novel is written that brings together heart-racing action with heart-rending insight. Such is In My Father's House.'