I had a name in that long-ago time, but I have forgotten it centuries This unlikely tale and sent it spinning into space with a single smilingīreath? And dare I think I ever, at any time, had any control over it at Was it a woman’s power, or a man’s dreams? What dark god fashioned It all started with the wistful longings of a poet-priest I once calledįriend. Young girl of grand ambition and laughing eyes. Sum of parts, and these are the only parts I can tell you now.īut the beginning, where was that? I think sometimes it began with a lithe For I realized some time ago that the whole storyĬannot be told, not today, perhaps not ever. So now the time has come,Īnd the moment is–as so many greatly anticipated momentsĪre–disappointing. Life has been as long and as tangled as mine. That, in the end, must be the summation of any man’s life–even if that
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Kramer is fighting to keep from falling victim to it. Randolf Sontime is renowned for his personal charm, and Dr. Anne Kramer, confessing to the heinous murder that has horrified the modern world.
On an upper floor of a plush, high-security building on Central Park West, an elegant man sits in the office of Dr. In a sweeping epic of dazzling magic, soaring suspense, and dark longing, three immortal souls are united by fate and a fearless ambition that will change the course of history–even as it destroys their own way of life.
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