Tannis is a Songres, an ethereal being of light and the last claimant to an ancient domain. She’s on the run from killers sent by Zoril, a Dark Seeker wanting leadership. Fleeing countless universes, she chances on a small, insignificant one, sees Jennifer Weaver die in a devastating accident and uses the inanimate body as a hiding place.
Kadin is a hunter, the best of the assassin, and he’s on Tannis’ trail. He sees his chance to catch her when she possesses the dying human’s body. Entering another body, that of the young male who witnessed the accident, he wills Nick to visit the hospital where the victim was taken.
Nick is a forest ranger who happened to see Jenn’s car turn itself into twisted wreckage. He’s surprised when she’s pulled out alive, happy she’s alive, and on an impulse begins to visit her at the hospital. Soon he and the girl are seeking out to each other, falling in love…or so her thinks. He doesn’t know his body’s a mere vessel for an unknown host with something else in mind for the girl he knows as Jennifer…
MY OPINION: A great story but much too short! It’s unusual for a tale to have so little interplay with minor ones for most of the narrative, but this one does—and it works, with only the three main characters interacting with each other. The descriptions of all three are revealing, especially the detailing of bodiless entities, of the lives of creatures existing as light and dark and on a different plane from our own. Since most of the action takes place on a mental level, there’s not all that much dialogue but that doesn’t detract from the tale a bit. I was caught up in hoping something would save Tannis from the inevitable death by assassin, and wondering if Kadin was as villainous as she thought him. The entire story left me wanting to know more…about Kadin, about Tannis, of what happens to Nick a who orchestrated the whole thing.
Like the title, Will o’ the Wisp is just the wisp of what appears to be to be an ever longer one just waiting to be told. There’s enough hints in this story for a full-length novel. So I’m wondering if there’s any chance the author may enlarge upon it at a later date, or perhaps spin off a series. I’ll look forward to that.
Will o’ the Wisp is available from Willow Moon Publishing LLC, www.willowmoonpublishing.com
This novel was supplied by the author and no remuneration was involved in the writing of this review.
