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available in print and ebook on Amazon.com & at Atmosphere Press
About the book
“Trapped by privilege and haunted by secrets, Helaine is a caged bird in her own home, bound by contract to marry a stranger and surrounded by enemies wearing friendly faces. When betrayal strikes from within, she takes a daring leap into the forbidden forest—where she encounters the Wild Boy and the Unicorn, beings of myth and untamed magic.
Helaine’s journey takes a dark twist when Robert the Priest demands she call the unicorn to its death to save her ailing father. Torn between loyalty and her growing sense of purpose, Helaine faces impossible choices that could shake the realms of faith and power alike. With danger closing in from all sides, she must decide who to trust, how far she’ll go to protect those she loves, and if she can ever return to the life she left behind.”
About Jehane Spicer
When Jehane Spicer left England for America, she found herself in a new country, in the rigors of culture shock, and far away from home. She also discovered a culture of creativity she had not expected, and realized she was free now to explore her deepest ambition, to become a writer. She knew nothing of life in the US, so she wrote what she knew. This story sprang to life when she first saw the tapestries The Hunt of the Unicorn in the Cloisters Museum in New York. In her mind, the familiar images and history of Europe made a time jump into the reality she was working to understand, and this story is how she made sense of profound change and came home again.
Jehane is a retired psychotherapist who has dedicated herself to working with deep trauma and dissociative disorders. She has made her home just outside Washington DC, the nation’s hub of political power, in a tall winged house in a deeply wooded area–open to the liminal and unseen.
Through the doorways of the past into the landscapes of today
When you step through one of these doorways into a different world, a different time, what will you find on the other side?
Who will be your friend and who your enemy?
Who will you become?
Jehane often buys real copies of the books she loves. She suggests printing off these painted doorways to make bookmarks that sync with Helaine’s story…