Wisp of a Thing: A Novel of the Tufa (Tufa Novels) (37 page)

The painting
The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke
by Richard Dadd is currently on display in the Tate Gallery in London. Its presence in the United States is entirely fictional.

BOOKS BY ALEX BLEDSOE

Blood Groove

The Girls with Games of Blood

The Sword-Edged Blonde

Burn Me Deadly

Dark Jenny

Wake of the Bloody Angel

The Hum and the Shiver

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alex Bledsoe grew up in West Tennessee, but now lives in Wisconsin. Besides his tales of the Tufa, he also writes the Eddie LaCrosse and Memphis Vampires series. His official website can be found at
www.alexbledsoe.com
.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

WISP OF A THING

Copyright © 2013 by Alex Bledsoe

All rights reserved.

Cover photographs by Sarah Ann Loreth (woman) and Irene Lamprakou (trees) / Arcangel Images

Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill

“Wrought Iron Fences” written by Kate Campbell, Ira Campbell, and Johnny Pierce copyright © 1996 by Large River Music Inc. (BMI)/CedarSong Publishing (BMI). Used by permission.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Bledsoe, Alex.

    Wisp of a thing / Alex Bledsoe.—First Edition.

         p. cm.

    ISBN 978-0-7653-3413-8 (hardcover)

    ISBN 978-1-4668-0826-3 (e-book)

    1.  Musicians—Fiction.   2.  Magic—Fiction.   3.  Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)—Fiction.   I.  Title.

PS3602.L456W57 2013

813'.6—dc23

2013003720

e-ISBN 9781466808263

First Edition: June 2013