"The suspenseful surprise ending to the crisis on which the story pivots dramatizes the unexcelled and surprising power of compassion. One of the most persuasive and moving presentations of a very sensitive subject with serious moral consequences that I have ever read. The characters are well drawn, fairly leaping off the page with chilling realism. Past and present timelines are nicely interwoven in such a way as to add depth and suspense. Alternate levels of consciousness are also artfully created so as to make them believable without needing to invoke a ‘suspension of disbelief.’ There are lyric passages of such grace that the very stones are made to vibrate with the liquidity of light on water. Who the narrator of the story turns out to be is revealed with a fine surprising touch." Dr. Robert Colacurcio, Ph.D.