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.