The Taker Audiobook (Free)
- Laurel Lefkow
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2011-09-06
Summary:
From the writer from the Hunger-hailed by Stephen King as “deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down”-comes a hauntingly atmospheric tale replete with alchemy, lust, and betrayal.
Real love can last a long time…but immortality comes at a cost…
Within the midnight change at a hospital in rural Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is usually expecting another peaceful night time of frostbite and the casual domestic dispute. But the minute Lanore McIlvrae-Lanny-walks into his ER, she changes his life permanently. A about The Taker strange woman with a past and plenty of dark secrets, Lanny is usually unlike anyone Luke offers ever met. He is inexplicably attracted to her…even though she is a murder believe with a law enforcement escort. So that as she starts to tell her story, a story of enduring love and consummate betrayal that transcends period and mortality, Luke finds himself utterly captivated.
Her impassioned accounts begins at the turn from the nineteenth century in the same small city of St. Andrew, Maine, when it had been a Puritan negotiation. Consumed as a kid by her love for the kid of the town’s creator, Lanny will do anything to become with him permanently. But the price she pays can be steep-an immortal bond that stores her to an awful fate for any eternity. And now, two centuries afterwards, the main element to her healing and her salvation is situated with Dr. Luke Findley.
Part historical novel, part supernatural page-turner, The Taker is an memorable tale about the power of unrequited like not only to elevate and sustain, but also to blind and ultimately destroy, and how each folks is in charge of finding our own path to redemption.