Valentine A Novel
Readers unacquainted with the imaginative nature of Lucius Shepard, author of The Jaguar Hunter, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, have an ideal starting point with his new novel Valentine. In South Florida, a hurricane alert waylays a journalist in the coastal town of Piersall. This safe harbor hosts an unlikely reunion he miraculously finds himself stranded with a lost love. This chance encounter is merely the first in a chain of curious events that repeatedly link these estranged lovers to one another. Suggesting the nature of coincidence may not be governed by chance alone but by the rules of the imagination and the universe, Valentine is an artful love story bearing Shepards distinctive stamp. This is a haunting and erotic novel from the author The Washington Post calls the most exciting new story writer of them all.