NEW ORLEANS, May 5, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Along the rocky wave crashed coastline an ancient mansion stands hollow and stoic like a ghost. As the cold Maine wind whirls around the walls, a legend wails through the decrepit home. Gay Grantham invites readers to enjoy a maritime mystery of spirits and love in her new novel, Wind Dancer (now available through 1stBooks Library).
Grantham spins a tale of tragedy and restless souls. She takes the reader up the driveway, characterized by the grass that sprouts through cracks planted by neglect, through the iron gates to the veranda of Argyll House and down a narrow path, hidden by tall sea grass to a rocky hill. The locals say that the hill is haunted and that a woman with long flowing hair, blowing in the wind, stands solitarily, watching, waiting. The veranda is said to hold the ghosts of happy moments, where two young lovers used to laugh and hold each other in sheer joy.
For those brave enough to venture to the house at night, there is a different story to tell. With a sliver of moon taking a small slice out of a black sky, a sound pierces the silent night. From the swirling fog, an outline of a schooner appears ghostly white in the slim moonlight and the sounds of oars in the water echo. Suddenly the veranda door bursts open and the figure of a woman, long unbound hair flowing down her back runs towards the ocean, where she enters the cold water to meet a gallant man rising from the dinghy to meet. She falls into his arms and the wind carries his deep voice whispering her name, Katrine.
A legend is born and a mystery of the lovelorn unfolds on moonless nights in Grantham's haunting novel, Wind Dancer.
Grantham currently lives in New Orleans after traveling to and from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi to the rockbound coast of Maine, where she developed a love for both areas of beauty. She grew up in the South studying journalism and music while in college. Eventually, she plans to go back to Bay St. Louis, Miss. and live "a quiet, gentle and peaceful life in this little piece of heaven," she says. Wind Dancer is her first book.
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