![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a story that’s been brewing in Womack’s imagination for years now, inspired by both history and myth. When Semele finds a manuscript that details the creation of the world’s first tarot deck, she’s intrigued when the ancient text is revealed to be the memoir of a powerful seer who seems to be reaching out specifically to Semele, the appraiser is swept into a dangerous conspiracy rooted in her own mysterious past. ![]() The new, standalone thriller, which combines elements of romance, suspense, historical fiction, and the supernatural, centers on Semele Cavnow, an antiques appraiser tasked with sorting through the library of a famed manuscript collector. It’s an unconventional approach that pays dividends in THE FORTUNE TELLER, Womack’s follow-up to her genre-bending debut novel The Memory Painter. “The Major Arcana in the tarot are 22 cards that form a progression, and I wanted to use that as a story arc-start with ‘The Fool’ and end with ‘The World.’ ” “I’ve had the idea to write a tarot story for years, where each chapter would be a card,” Womack tells The Big Thrill. ![]() When it was time to forge the framework of her second novel, Gwendolyn Womack found structure in an unlikely place: tucked away in a deck of tarot cards. ![]()
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