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Valerie "Val" Chesterfield is a linguist trained in the most esoteric of disciplines: dead Nordic languages. Despite her successful career, she leads a sheltered life and languishes in the shadow of her twin brother Andy, an accomplished climate scientist stationed on a remote island off Greenland's barren coast. But Andy is gone: a victim of suicide, having willfully ventured unprotected into 50 degree below zero weather. Val is inconsolable - and disbelieving. She suspects foul play. When Wyatt Andy's fellow researcher in the Arctic, discovers a scientific impossibility - a young girl frozen in the ice who thaws out alive, speaking a language no one understands - Val is his first call. Will she travel to the frozen North and meet this girl, try to comprehend what she is so passionately trying to communicate Under the auspices of helping Wyatt interpret the girl's speech, Val musters every ounce of her courage and journeys to the Artic to solve the mystery of her brother's death.
About the Author
In a brilliant departure from her acclaimed work as a satirist, novelist Erica Ferencik proves herself a master of spine-chilling suspense with her new novel "Repeaters," which has just been optioned for film and named to Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2012.
"Repeaters is wild, sexy, scary and smart...a one-of-a-kind take on reincarnation."
- William Walsh, author of Questionstruck
Robert Tremblay of Gatehouse Media says: "Repeaters takes you to the darkest netherworlds of the human heart...not a book to begin at night if you need to sleep before dawn."
Step into the demi-world of beautiful, ruthless Astra and her kind - unearthly creatures condemned to endless reincarnation unless they can love a human being.
Erica Ferencik is an award winning novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker and standup comedian, and has been a featured guest on NPR's "Morning Stories." Her comic novel, "Cracks in the Foundation," called "hysterical" by Alex Beam of the Boston Globe, features Ginger Kanadoo, a hapless, drunk, desperate realtor who will stop at nothing to seal a deal.
