num_pages: 349
description: Alex Bledsoes The Hum and the Shiver was named one of the Best Fiction Books of 2011 by Kirkus Reviews. Now with Wisp of a Thing Bledsoe returns to the isolated ridges and hollows of the Smoky Mountains to spin an equally enchanting tale of music and magic older than the hills.Touched by a very public tragedy musician Rob Quillen comes to Cloud County Tennessee in search of a song that might ease his aching heart. All he knows of the mysterious and reclusive Tufa is what he has read on the internet: they are an enigmatic clan of swarthy black-haired mountain people whose historical roots are lost in myth and controversy. Some people say that when the first white settlers came to the Appalachians centuries ago they found the Tufa already there. Others hint that Tufa blood brings special gifts.Rob finds both music and mystery in the mountains. Close-lipped locals guard their secrets even as Rob gets caught up in a subtle power struggle he cant begin to comprehend. A vacationing wife goes missing raising suspicions of foul play and a strange feral girl runs wild in the woods howling in the night like a lost spirit.Change is coming to Cloud County and only the night wind knows what part Rob will play when the last leaf falls from the Widows Treeand a timeless curse must be broken at last.
language: English
title: Wisp of a Thing
publisher: Tor Books