When Rocks Dance

Exotic, imaginative, inspired--a fresh and brilliant talent spins out a hypnotic tale of magic and the material world. Man s lust wars with woman s justice in a tropical paradise where the greatest prize is land, and the ultimate law is obeah. This is the conflict of When Rocks Dance, a historical novel of such beguiling sensuality and primal power that it defies comparison. The issue of an ill-fated union between an English planter and a native Trinida- dian woman, Marina is both blessed and damned. To the voodoo high priest, Taro, she is the chosen one, the one for whom her elder brothers were sacrificed at birth. To the tribal chief, the Warao, she is the only mulatto woman bred to wrest land from a man and own it outright. To her husband, Antonio, she is the single source of bope for laying to rest a curse that had made life a hell of guilt and thwarted desire. But to the magical forces pulsing in the trees, the rocks, the earth around her, Marina is the vessel of an atavistic destiny savage, sensuous, violent. Filled with passion, immanent with the fear of and faith in obeah, Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell s When Rocks Dance isa novel of stunning strength and vitality.