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Ok,
for those of you who are wondering, yes…!!!Spoiler Alert!!! I’m
going to tell you what the book is about, but you’ll still have to read it to
get to the kitty gritty of story.
It
starts out by introducing Mira, the heroine of the story. She’s a 30ish wealthy
black doctor living and working in the cold dark and gloomy city of
Chicago. (In case you are wondering, I use fictionalized versions of real
places throughout my story.) Mira is bored and uninspired. She becomes an
online social networker in an attempt to add some excitement to her life.
It is there that she meets Giovanni, our reluctant hero.
Giovanni
intrigues Mira’s sense of wonder when he tells her that he hasn’t physically
been in the presence of other people, in more than ten years. He says that he
suffers from a skin condition that makes him near fatally sensitive to sunlight
and has left him with noticeably gray skin. Being the caring person that she
is, Mira decides to take on the challenge of helping this poor secluded soul.
Over
the course of some time, Mira learns through much back and forth chatting, that
there is so much more wrong with and concerning Giovanni, than just his skin
disorder. Then for reasons that take half the book for her to figure out, she
decides to go meet Giovanni face to face at his mysterious secluded country
home.
As
soon as Mira arrives to meet Giovanni, she learns that he is not totally alone.
He lives with an elderly, wheelchair bound, father type, who’s been taking care
of Giovanni for most of his life. It doesn’t take Mira long to
figure out that there’s something truly strange about Giovanni and his friend
Abraham. During Mira’s initial stay with Giovanni, she and he both experience
some wildly intense dreams that foreshadow events to come later on. The main
thing that keeps Mira’s mind racing is that fact that late one night, she goes
outside and sees what appears to be a snow-white eagle the size of a man,
flying high in the sky above Giovanni’s house.
When
urgent business back home forces Mira to end her visit with Giovanni early, he
is unable to cope with her absence. In such a short time, Giovanni has
developed feelings for Mira that even he doesn’t quite understand. In her
absence, Giovanni loses control of his emotions and his true secret is finally
revealed to the reader. He undergoes a dramatic transformation and spends his
time soaring through the night sky like a fiendish stalker.
While
Mira is away, she and Giovanni continue to communicate online until she is able
to return to spend more time with him and Abraham. Upon returning to Giovanni’s
home, hidden secrets begin surface causing drastic changes in their
relationship to occur. Mira and Abraham begin to bond like father and daughter
and Giovanni becomes jealous of their closeness. Mira soon begins to
realize that she too has feelings for Giovanni and begins to find herself
unusually and irresistibly attracted to him.
After
a long harsh winter filled with intense arguments and life changing activities,
Mira finally sees Giovanni’s horrifying transformation, but isn’t afraid of
him. It actually brings them closer together. For some time, Mira and Giovanni
are both left wondering if he is some kind of a monster or a strange looking
angel sent from heaven, unable to remember his purpose. With everything laid
out on the table, Giovanni and Mira take on the task of mastering Giovanni’s
uniqueness, including several special abilities or powers that he begins to
display.
Just
when things start to get really cool and comfortable between the two of them,
Abraham succumbs to cancer and dies, once again testing the limits of their
relationship. For the first time Giovanni is on his own with only Mira to
comfort him…but can she comfort him the way he needs to be or will she comfort
him the way he wants to be?
I
could answer this question for you, but it really would give away the ending of
the story. I bet you’re wondering where all the angels and demons fit into this
dramatic little love story…You’ll just have to keep following this blog or just
read the book to find out.
