Glamorous Powers (Starbridge Book 2)
The time is 1940. Jonathan Darrow is an Anglican priest when he receives a shattering vision and knows he must leave the monastery that has been his home for seventeen years. As he plunges into the temptations of the real world, a crisis sends him into the labyrinth of his past to pluck out the buried truth beneath the deceptions he has been living through. <br /><br /><b>Praise for <i>Glamorous Powers<br /></i></b><br />“Fascinating . . . convincing . . . believable.”<b>—<i>Newsday</i></b><br /><br />“Mesmerizing . . . holds the reader riveted.”<b>—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br /><br />“Intriguing and wholly involving . . . Darrow is a willful, proud, manipulative man, struggling to subdue his tempestuous character. . . . The resulting crisis—in which Darrow finally faces the necessary process of uncovering deeply buried pain—underlines Ms. Howatch's concern with the continual play of light and dark in the human spirit.”<b>—<i>The New York Times Book Review<br /></i></b><br />“Gripping . . . You'll be quite transported. You'll also discover one of the most original novelists writing today.”<b>—<i>Cosmopolitan<br /></i></b><br />“Howatch is skillful at plot development and deftly handles [her] subject. . . . Her grasp of psychic experiences and the inner struggle between the urge to do spiritual good and the temptation to exert control make for an engrossing read.”<b>—<i>New York Daily News<br /></i></b><br />“Wise, witty . . . Holds the reader spellbound.”<b>—<i>Publishers Weekly</i></b>