{ "item_title" : "The Last Descendant", "item_author" : [" Derek R. Gittins "], "item_description" : "The chronicles of this book take place in recent times and are set out in six parts, each complete in itself yet integral to the whole story.Priscilla (Terri) Taylor is the latest of a long line of descendants plagued by the curse of Corbett, a distraught gypsy girl, generations before. At the same time, an old mystic predicted that one such descendant would become a saviour of people.This dramatic saga has a mystical thread running through it and concludes in a breath-taking climax. It recounts the ordeals and achievements of Terri and her immediate family from pre-birth, through her childhood, adolescence and into womanhood. With her mother dying of unnatural causes when she was three, Terri is a self-motivated tom-boy and a natural athlete. She is constantly in trouble; her life-threatening and life-saving escapades causing consternation to all concerned.Her grieving father is fired from his work but still manages to form his own business with the help of a friend and the forethought of his late wife. His success prompts the unscrupulous board of his old company to attempt to close him down. He finds unexpected help however, from the CEO of the group, sacks the perpetrators and installs him as Managing Director, later providing him with yet another incredible business opportunity.With his newly found wealth, he sends his daughter to a prestigious college for girls hoping that will transform her into the elegant young lady his wife would have wished for.Here, however, Terri feels an outsider and is involved in many predicaments culminating in a confrontation with a local gang which leads to her suspension, yet surprisingly, is partly responsible for her attaining the College's highest honour.Meanwhile, her father has a tempestuous affair with Delphine, his boss's salacious daughter only to find true love with Sandy, an attractive, precocious girl half his age. Before he can ask her to marry him, she is deceptively lured away by a jealous Delphine leaving him heartbroken once again.As an adult, Terri joins a Climbing Club, where she not only gains acclaim but, somewhat against her natural inclinations, meets the love of her life and discovers her latent femininity. The two soul mates commit their love to one another in a most bizarre but moving exchange of vows.Later, and now pregnant, she is savagely raped and her lover murdered during a burglary resulting in the death of her unborn child and leaving her unable to give birth ever again. This however, heralds the end of the gypsy's curse whilst ironically bringing Sandy and her father together again. Terri, now physically and mentally scarred for life, is consumed by a terrible obsession to assassinate her attacker and then take her own life.Before she can accomplish this, a hauntingly spiritual exchange with her dead mother results in a journey to far off Manda Chu where she finds herself the long-awaited, preordained successor to an uncompromising guardian of a remote people, who is known as 'The Grand Bull'.Wanting to find some inner peace she travels to a remote nunnery in a distant land where she delivers the local community from a marauding gang of bandits before returning to Manda Chu to pay her respects to her mentor, the Grand Bull, who had now died.The gripping final part of the book describes the most extraordinary, terrifying and brutal episode of her existence and at last the old mystic's prophesy unfolds. Sadly however, the experience has transformed our protagonist whose life and persona will now never be the same again.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/83/615/437/1836154372_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "26.99", "online_price" : "26.99", "our_price" : "26.99", "club_price" : "26.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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