Ethan Pollack thinks of Blythe Cove Manor as his second home and Blythe is second mother. A career navy officer, Ethan never returns to Martha's Vineyard without a gift for Blythe. However, he didn't know there was anything unusual about the obsidian cat he bought in Japan. Then he sees a woman in his room who isn't there. Jenna Taylor plans, prepares, compares her options before making decisions, but one Memorial Day Weekend she uncharacteristically takes a vacation to Martha's Vineyard. The island is flooded with uniformed sailors. Meeting Ethan on the stairs of Blythe Cove Manor, she has no idea why she feels she already knows him. Neither of them understands that there is something more at work that will tie them together. Can they unravel it? And do they really want to?

In the center of a secluded valley stands something that is known to be out of place. An obsidian spire rises out from the earth as if a giant thrust it there. In the spire's shadow something is happening that will birth those who will end the evil dwelling in another realm. It is often thought only evil resides in shadows, but in the recesses of this shadow, enough light shines between the darkness to nurture a power that can defeat that evil. Follow seven Chosen as they endure adventure after adventure until they are powerful enough to overcome an evil Below the Obsidian Spire... Or until the evil overcomes them.

"Cats have been associated with artistic creation for many centuries, from Egyptian tomb paintings to Louis wain's anthropomorphised felines of the late 1880's. They represent an undeniably compelling subject whether appearing on stone wall, canvas or paper. This book concentrates sololey on printmaking, itself an acient art form that has seemingly found a new lease of life in contemporary hands. Captured on these pages are etchings, engraving, woodblocks, linocuts, silkscreen, collagraphs and lithography. All feature cats as dominant or significant subject. Many are whitty, whimsical; some bold others subtle. Buyers of this book will probably art lovers, inevitably cat lovers, or more likely both"-- Publishers description.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.