Idol's Eye

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Philippa is a shy, half-blind young woman trapped between a domineering family and an overbearing suitor whose teasing possessiveness grows steadily more threatening. Then, in a single uncanny moment, she sees a purple cloud over Hump Back Mountain and realizes that sight may mean far more than what the eyes can manage. That awakening draws her toward a world in which ordinary life and hidden destiny are about to collide. At the same time, a strange alien-seeming trio led by Par, Til, and Gib arrives with a crystal, certain they have come to the right place and seeking the one woman meant for the one man they serve. As Philippa's mother presses her to accept the suitor, his forcefulness finally makes refusal impossible to avoid. A dream of an orchard, a holy time, and an idol-like figure reveals to Philippa a deeper, truer vision, and she rises changed, newly alive to the tastes, labor, and textures of her home. In the end, she leaves for Hump Back Mountain, removes her glasses, and begins to climb toward a destiny shaped by inner sight, reverence, and an extraordinary marriage across worlds.