Adanta’s sick father has left their Smoky Mountain cottage to find a healing lake mentioned in the lore of the Cherokee. She and her mother, Charlotte, soon have a visitor: James, who Adanta secretly distrusts and calls "the Lean One." When James ensnares and bewitches Charlotte, and takes her from the cabin, Adanta has no choice: she must go into the wilderness, to Adantis, the secret home of the Hidden People deep in the mountains. She must summon up the courage to save her entire family . . . alone.
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Marly Youmans is the author of four novels: LITTLE JORDAN (David R. Godine, Publisher, 1995); CATHERWOOD (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996); THE WOLF PIT (FSG, 2001, The Michael Shaara Award); and VAL/ORSON (UK: P. S. Publishing, 2009). In addition, she has published two Appalachian fantasies for young adults, THE CURSE OF THE RAVEN MOCKER (FSG, 2003) and INGLEDOVE (FSG, 2005). Her poetry collections are THE THRONE OF PSYCHE (Mercer University Press, 2011) and CLAIRE(Louisiana State University, 2003). Forthcoming poetry books are The Foliate Head (UK: Stanza Press) and THALIAD, a post-apocalyptic epic poem in blank verse (Montreal: PHOENICIA PUBLISHING, 2011.) She also has three novels due out in the near future: GLIMMERGLASS and MAZE OF BLOOD from P. S. Publishing and A DEATH AT THE WHITE CAMELLIA ORPHANAGE, winner of the first annual Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction (Mercer University Press, 2012). She is a native of the Carolinas currently living in a snowbank in Cooperstown, New York with her husband and three children.
