With this lyrically written debut, Jennifer Stevenson carves out a new subgenre for herself: trailer-trash fantasy. Gelia Somershoe and her daughter Raedawn are powerfully sexual, powerfully magical women. The natural magic of their home, the land by the Fox River in rural Illinois, is anchored in an ancient tree. When greedy developers cut down the tree, the magic runs wild and threatens to cause the river to flood, unless something--or someone--can take the tree's place. Meanwhile, Alexander Caebeau, a lonely construction worker on the developers' site, is falling in love with Raedawn and having dreams every night that he's a tree... Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.