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A telling of ancestors / Marion Balyszak.

by Balyszak, Marion, author.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2019]

Fathers and daughters -- Hawaii -- Fiction.

Legends -- Hawaii -- Fiction.

Mana -- Fiction.

Kauai (Hawaii) -- Fiction.

9781726399944 (paperback)

Balyszak, Marion. Emma Prince Kauaʻi mysteries.

317 pages ; 23 cm.

"A long-kept secret reveals Emma Prince is not who she believed. The revelation draws her to the north shore of Kauaʻi in search of Aikue Prince, an elusive Hawaiian artist--and the father she believed was dead. The quest for the truth about why he abandoned his family twenty-five years earlier begins with an address on a telegram and an omen in the form of a plumeria lei--the dead man flower--with a cryptic message, 'The reconciliation you seek is connected to the dead.' Kauaʻi is calling and Emma is about to discover why she was always meant to be there. Through 'a telling of ancestors' (he haʻi kupuna) a long-concealed lineage tied to the Nā Pua Aliʻi o Kauaʻi, the ruling chiefs of Kauaʻi, begins to see the light of day after nearly two centuries. She discovers a mystical island paradise filled with wahi pana, 'legendary or storied places,' where secrets are concealed from the eyes of men and the present is deeply rooted in a mythic past resonating with ancient legends and island magic. And, as it turns out, Emma possesses a bit of mana. Just as the island begins to make her whole, darkness descends over paradise, and as her parents feared, Emma encounters danger--and perpetual 'chicken skin.' Efforts to find her father are thwarted by a family afraid of something or someone; a mysterious stalker, called 'The Watcher,' who threatens Emma to 'leave Kauai or die'; and 'loafers and hangers-on,' thieves who would do anything to take what isn't theirs to possess--including disturbing the dead, defiling the land, and murder. Before Emma can find her father, she must calm the disturbance of the land and deliver a dose of 'island justice' to the nefarious troublemakers standing in her way, relying on ancient gods, ancestral guardians, and the legendary mana tied to her newfound blood connection to Kauai"--Page [4] of cover.

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