New York: Penguin, (2002). First edition - The author's first novel - a "magical story of belief, supersitition and innocence" -In a outlying village in a faraway valley a rumor spreads of a mysterious firgue who can help the town in their time of need. Nathaniel Cadwallader brings a new age of hope to the village,yet there are those who resent the ease with which he holds with the village in the palm of his hand, and when a outsider attempts to claim the carpenter as her own, the spell is broken, with tragic consequences. 217 pp.