Coleen D’Andrea’s The Harbinger is the magical tale of a woman who finds love in another time and place. 

Peyton Miller has a life that, by all appearances, is the envy of many.  She has everything a woman could want—a husband, a nice home and a comfortable lifestyle.  In reality, she is a disillusioned society wife married to a man she no longer loves.  Her only comfort is her painting—she has a promising career as an artist. 

Often taking solace through her painting, one day she is distracted by a mysterious crow.  Drawn to the bird, she follows him to an abandoned cottage.  Within its crumbled foundation, she finds a strange box filled with Indian artifacts that whirl her into a terrifying black void. 

Peyton awakens to find an elderly woman dressed in colonial garb standing over her.  The woman is adamant that Peyton is her grandchild, Rachel.  The woman begs Peyton to follow her and she does so, terrified and disoriented, to an unfamiliar and puritanical home.   

Once there, Peyton is forced to assume the life of Rachel Landry, a woman married to a sea captain in Salem, Massachusetts.  Somehow, Peyton has been transported to the 17^th century, the year before the witch trials begin.  As she struggles to adapt to the primitive surroundings of the era, she begins a fight to prevent the persecution of innocent women in a village.  The women, harboring a dark secret, have much to learn from Peyton.   Peyton has much to learn about herself and about love—true, enduring love.  She begins to understand why she’d never been happy in the 21^st century—the love of her life belongs to a distant past.    

Blending modern-day, brilliant storytelling with New England lore, this tender and perfectly constructed debut novel will capture your heart and have you reading well into the night.
 

 

About the Author



Coleen D’Andrea is a writer, reading coach and writing tutor for elementary school children. Ms. D’Andrea is currently writing two novels and lives with her three children in Micanopy, Florida.