num_pages: 281
description: A divorced single parent, Tabitha Mornay lives on an estate on Long Island's North Shore. A promising sculptor, she spends summers in her houseboat - her life sounds reasonable enough. But her beloved - and rebellious - teenage daughter, Tess, has taken up with a dangerous boy friend and moved out of Tabitha's protective range. On the eve of Tabitha's first art show, trouble breaks on all her daughter missing, her studio ransacked, murder, drugs, poison pen letters . . . . The Burning Tower, le Feu de Ciel (the fire from Heaven) is one of the major arcana of the tarot pack. The card is sometimes called The House of God - a medieval term for a hospital. One expert, Case, notes that it traditionally stands for the Tower of Babel, so that the exploding tower signifies the power of utterance. Christian, another expert, calls it the "lightning-struck tower" and takes it to denote ruin, the punishment of pride, the downfall of any spirit that attempts to discover the mysteries of God.
language: English
title: The Burning Tower
titlecomplete: The Burning Tower
characters: Wolf Mattel, Tess's boyfriend, Tess, rebellious teenage punk daughter, love interest-sheriff Logan Brookes, Tabitha Mornay
ratings_count: 4
places: Long Island, New York
publisher: Feral Press, Inc.