Wisp of a Thing Audiobook (Free)

Alex Bledsoe’s The Hum and the Shiver wasnamed one of the best fiction books of 2011 by Kirkus Reviews. Now Bledsoe profits towards the isolatedridges and hollows from the Smoky Mountains to spin an equally enchanting tale ofmusic and magic over the age of the hills.

Touched by a very public tragedy, musicianRob Quillen involves Cloud County, Tennessee, in search of a song that mightease his aching heart. All he understands of the inexplicable and reclusive Tufa iswhat he has read on the web: they are an about Wisp of something enigmatic clan of swarthy,black-haired hill people whose traditional roots are dropped in myth andcontroversy. Some say that when the 1st white settlers found theAppalachians generations ago, they found the Tufa currently there. Others hint thatTufa blood brings special gifts.

Rob finds both music and mystery in themountains: close-lipped locals safeguard their secrets, even as Rob gets caught upin a subtle power struggle he can’t begin to grasp. A travelling wifegoes missing, raising suspicions of bad play. And a strange feral young lady runswild in the woods, howling in the night time like a lost spirit.

Change is coming toCloud County, in support of the night blowing wind knows what component Rob can play when thelast leaf falls from the Widow’s Tree-and a timeless curse must at last end up being broken.