This exclusive eBook short story looks back--way back--to where it all
began for Odd Thomas and Stormy Llewellyn, two souls who are destined to
be together forever.
Amid the dizzying rides, tantalizing games of chance, and fanciful
attractions of a state fair, two teenage sweethearts on the cusp of life
and love's pleasures find their way to a shadowy carnival tent brimming
with curiosities. There, from the bizarre and enthralling Gypsy Mummy, a
mechanized merchant of dreams and prognosticator of tomorrows, the young
couple learns what fate promises for them. But fate, for Odd Thomas and
Stormy Llewellyn, is something altogether different: full of dark
corners, sharp edges, and things no seer or soothsayer could ever
anticipate.
And for Odd Thomas, a gallant fry cook from a sleepy California desert
town, the future beckons--to listen to unquiet spirits, pursue
unsettling mysteries, and learn shocking truths . . . for a purpose far
greater than himself.