Frank Peretti, one of Christian fiction's best-selling and popular author is releasing his first book in six years. Illusion will hit bookstores around the country on March 6, 2012.
Northern California fans of Peretti's past books like Monster, This Present Darkness and Tilly can find an independent Christian retailer in their community here, or visit one of the following Christian bookstores the San Franciso Christian Fiction Examiner recommends.
- RDBC Bookstore in Rio Dell
- Family Books and Gifts in North Highland
- Harvest Christian Bookstore in San Francisco
According to Peretti's website, Illusions is about:
Dane and Mandy, a popular magic act for forty years, are tragically separated by a car wreck that claims Mandy’s life—or so everyone thinks. Even as Dane mourns and tries to rebuild his life without her, Mandy, supposedly dead, awakes in the present as the nineteen-year-old she was in 1970. Distraught and disoriented in what to her is the future, she is confined to a mental ward until she discovers a magical ability to pass invisibly through time and space to escape. Alone in a strange world, she uses her mysterious powers to eke out a living, performing magic on the streets and in a quaint coffee shop.
Hoping to discover an exciting new talent, Dane ventures into the coffee shop and is transfixed by the magic he sees, illusions that even he, a seasoned professional, cannot explain. But more than anything, he is emotionally devastated by this teenager who has never met him, doesn’t know him, is certainly not in love with him, but is in every respect identical to the young beauty he first met and married some forty years earlier.
They begin a furtive relationship as mentor and protégée, but even as Dane tries to sort out who she really is and she tries to understand why she is drawn to him, they are watched by secretive interests who not only possess the answers to Mandy’s powers and misplacement in time but also the roguish ability to decide what will become of her.
Peretti's fans will most likely expect the characters of Illusion to be expertly written and multi-dimensional. He is known for creating characters and situations, that although deal with the supernatural, are surprisingly 'normal.' With the extraordinary situations Peretti's books are filled with, each person is relevant to the story and acts in ways that run the gamut of human actions and emotions. While spiritual truths are always explored in a ways that make readers question their own beliefs, the action and story never are minimized. ,
Make sure to add Frank Peretti's newest book, Illusion to your list of must-read books this spring and pick it up when it is released in March 2012.
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