George Cummings
ASIN: B003DKJBMC
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 316
Two aging men reside on a mountain top in a contemporary medieval fortress: the one in the company of his youthful chronicler and the other in charge of a nubile daughter; together the old men design to keep the young couple apart. But the lovers manage to escape into the valley below and enter the mysterious world of a fortune teller, entrapment, madness, and murder.Time, love, commitment, human purpose, history, old age, and the mysteries of human nature are a few of the many moving targets in the deteriorating judgment of a man’s muse that exposes the rawness of his creative urge to his nemesis: a Master Planner who refuses to be obeyed.In a world of reminiscences, where time shifts and life’s purpose fades, any expectation of certainty out of the stability of a personal relationship is put into question; and concrete goals are subjected to the manipulation of a fate which intervenes ...