Starred review from September 15, 2006
When Cecelia, a cardiologist, is asked during the staid engagement party for her and lawyer Jack if she hired a gypsy fortune-teller for entertainment, she knows that her sister Amy has crashed the party. And that the conservative life she has carefully constructed for herself in Baltimore is about to explode. The sisters haven't seen each other since the scam 10 years earlier that netted Cecelia the money to go to medical school. Amy possesses the unique power of knowing the name of everybody's "one true love," and she claims that Cecelia's is Finn Concord, and that he is dying. Meanwhile in Florida, widower carpenter Finn Concord is being persuaded by his precocious eight-year-old daughter, Maya, to go to Baltimore to visit her "rent-a-granny." Amy, who, like her sister, is one-quarter gypsy, has her own agenda, and it includes Maya's "granny," who runs a tavern. A delightful debut with endearing characters, a fresh plot, and a paranormal twist, Holquist's tale will thrill romance readers and fans of Meredith Blevins' Annie Szabo gypsy mystery series.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)