My Brother's Keeper

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Howarth, 1846. The edge of the Yorkshire moors. Here, in solitude, live a widowed parish priest and his family: three daughters and their single brother. Though the future will celebrate the three daughters, right now they are unknown, their genius concealed. In just a few short years, they will all be dead. And it will be middle daughter Emily's chance encounter with a grievously wounded man on the moor that sets them on the path to their doom. My Brother's Keeper introduces an ancient secret haunting the moors, a dark inheritance in the family bloodline and something terrible buried under an ogham-inscribed slab in the church. An atmospheric, claustrophobic gothic novel from a revered fantasy author... featuring... have you not guessed yet

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Tim Powers is the author of seventeen science fiction and fantasy novels, including The Anubis Gates, Declare, and On Stranger Tides, which was the basis of the fourth 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movie. His work has won the World Fantasy Award, the Philip K. Dick Memorial award, and the Locus Poll award, and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Along with K. W. Jeter and James Blaylock, Powers is considered one of the founders of Steampunk. He lives in San Bernardino, with his wife of more than forty years, Serena.