THE GAIA WEBSTERS
Kim Antieau
ROC Books, 1997
ISBN:0-451-45511-8 (paperback)
Industrialized civilization has long destroyed itself, and localized governments live in harmony
with the environment. In the Arizona Territory, Gloria Stone administers her healing arts to the
community of Coyote Creek in exchange for her food and lodging. Her inherent ability to reverse
the effects of sickness, however, is accompanied by strange phenomena: She has no memory of
her childhood, and her sleep is plagued by bizarre and inexplicable nightmares. When Coyote
Creek is visited by a mysterious representative of the Arizona governor, the small community is
quickly swept by an epidemic that even Gloria is powerless to stop.
In the desperate search for a cure, she will come to understand that the ghosts that prowl her
dreams, the governor's man who stalks her village, and the powers that emanate from her body
are all parts of a puzzle that is somehow connected to the catastrophic past. And solving it could
either be the salvation of humanity - or Gloria's own horrible undoing.
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