In the most imaginative and haunting love story since the The Time Traveler's Wife, a world unfolds where magic is a fickle and powerful force, love can save and destroy, and a couple's fate can be sealed by a mere sleight of hand...

Toby Warring seems too young and too attractive to be sending drinks to strange women in a small-town Nevada saloon, but that is exactly how he meets Mel Snow, a textile designer who is selling her wares throughout the country.  In a brief but strangely familiar conversation, Toby shows Mel that he is a rare “real” magician—actually creating the wine he places in front of her—and explains that all he has ever wanted is to perform in Las Vegas.  They marry the next day. Read more