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The Shape of Rain (The Costura Mágica Chronicles) - Softcover

Book 3 of 3: The Costura Mágica Chronicles

Grantham, Annette

 
9798235155039: The Shape of Rain (The Costura Mágica Chronicles)

Synopsis

Magical realism at its most tender: a story of grief, thread, and the impossible woman hidden in the paint.

She built a cage for a ghost, and the ghost looked back.

In the mist-shrouded peaks of Puerto Rico, where the rain falls with devotional persistence, Elena Reyes has spent a decade stitching the town's sorrows into quilts to keep from drowning in her own. As a practitioner of Costura Mágica, she knows how to turn raw grief into beautiful, managed order. But when she salvages a box of paint-stiffened drop cloths discarded by a reclusive artist, her needle strikes a scream in the fabric she cannot ignore.

Rhys Vaughn was once a master of vibrant color, a celebrated painter whose canvases were emotional excavations. Now he haunts his own studio, painting sterile white Portraits of Absence to wall out the memory of the woman he loved, and the crash that ended her music.

Then a single sunbeam pierces Elena's workshop, and the chaotic smears on the drop cloths resolve into something impossible: a spectral woman with a cello and a sorrowful smile. Elena has found the ghost Rhys tried to discard, a woman trapped behind the glass of his guilt.

To unlock the story buried in the pigment, Elena must walk into Rhys's storm. She must prove that a story isn't just in the big pieces; it's in the wear, the stains, the way a thread puckers from a hasty mending. But bearing witness has a cost. As the outside world closes in, Elena finds herself choosing between the safe harbor of her ordinary life and a living current that threatens to pull her under.

The Shape of Rain is the haunting conclusion to The Costura Mágica Chronicles, a lush work of magical realism about the courage it takes to face the past and find hope in the shape of a single, perfect line of blue.

Step into the storm. The final stitch is waiting.

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About the Author

Annette Grantham has always been a wanderer and an adventurer. Born in New York, she spent her childhood and youth moving across the Northeast coast and Texas, attending thirteen different schools along the way. She joined the Army and served her country with pride and courage. She then pursued a career as a software engineer, creating cutting-edge technology for secretive government agencies. But her true passion was always writing. She dreamed of crafting stories that would transport readers to magical worlds full of wonder and danger. Now she writes fantasy novels that combine her love of history and magic. Her five-book series, Frontier Witches, is a thrilling blend of Deadwood and Practical Magic, featuring strong and sassy heroines who use their powers to survive and thrive in the lawless lands of the Old West. She lives with her high school sweetheart and her crazy dog in a cozy cabin surrounded by nature.

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