9780061044748
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Barbara Michaels
Format Mass Market Paperback
Dimensions 4.18 (w) x 6.75 (h) x 1.00 (d)
Pages 400
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date January 1999
ISBN 9780061044748
Book ISBN 10 0061044741
About Book

When an antique bridal quilt appears under mysterious circumstances at the vintage clothing shop where Rachel Grant works, she is fascinated. She has never been able to resist handmade textiles from the past, for she believes that through the ages, women wove protective magic into their fabrics in order to mark the important events of their lives: birth, marriage, and death.

But there is more than good in the quilt's magic power. Day by day Rachel sees and feels the power growing, as she senses the quilt influencing her thoughts and actions. Much as Rachel's logical mind longs to deny the supernatural, the aura of evil coming from the quilt is terrifyingly real, and it seems to carry a sinister legacy into the lives of the people Rachel loves.

When an antique bridal quilt appears under mysterious circumstances at the vintage clothing shop where Rachel Grant works, she is fascinated. She believes that through the ages, women wove protective magic into the fabrics in order to mark the important events in their lives. But, day by day, Rachel sees and feels the power growing, as she senses the quilt influencing her thoughts and actions. From the bestselling author of Shattered Silk.

Reviews

Library Journal

Barbara Rosenblat's skills as a reader could make the dictionary a best seller. A well-known narrator of unabridged audiobooks, she doesn't skimp on her talent in the abridged arena either. In this instance, however, her verbal dexterity is undermined by a sketchy abridgment. The story itself is fascinating: Rachel Grant finds her personality overshadowed by a woman long since dead but not yet avenged. The key is an antique album quilt, which comes into Rachel's hands when it arrives at the vintage clothing shop where she works. Events escalate when Rachel's actions turn sinister. Unfortunately, too many gaps are present in the plot, as key scenes begin from nowhere and subplots suddenly reappear to tie up loose ends. Rosenblat's considerable narrative skills compensate somewhat but not entirely. The popularity of both the author and the reader makes this a must purchase despite its inconsistencies.Jodi L. Israel, Westwood, Mass.

Denise Perry Donavin

Returning to the people and the place made popular in her best-sellers, "Shattered Silk" (1988) and "Ammie, Come Home" (1979), Michaels weaves an incredible mystery based on a haunted quilt. Rachel Grant is a doctoral student working on her thesis--an investigation of women's garments designed for important rites of passage--when she takes a part-time job at a chic vintage clothing shop run by two women, Kara and her sister-in-law Cheryl. When Cheryl's police officer husband is shot, Rachel is drawn into the family because she moves into Cheryl's home, which is connected to the shop. Meanwhile, the message from the quilt lures Rachel into dangerous misdeeds. The unraveling of the mystery proves fascinating, and any stitcher or mystery lover will fall under this novel's spell.