Grave Sight sees the pair travel to a little tourist town in the Ozarks to find a missing local teen, believed deceased. Harper is totally dependent on his support and strength, not being able to conceive of a time when they aren’t living so closely so when he is imprisoned she becomes quite anxious about how she will manage without him. Tolliver fulfills many roles in his travels with Harper bodyguard, manager, chauffeur, and emotional pillar of strength. Thrown together as teens by the attachment and ensuing marriage of her mother and his father Harper and Tolliver took on most of the responsibility for the house and family as teens which cemented their bond. The other legacies of her lightning strike are the physical and emotional scars it has left behind and they are a lot of the reason Harper is so dependent on Tolliver. Harper’s gift has left her vulnerable, to people’s horrible opinions and fear which sometimes becomes violent. Come to think about it, the brothers in both series also share a few similarities. And in her line of work she sees, all to often, what can happen to a woman who trusts the wrong man.Īgain Harris has created a heroine who has an extremely strong connection with her brother, in this case step-brother, and this is pretty much all the family they have. Opting for a life of travel with her step-brother Tolliver, following the bookings and delivering closure to people who desperately need it Harper doesn’t have many personal attachments. Viewed with varying degrees of fascination, fear, loathing and disgust Harper has learned that sometimes the best thing to do is get in, get the job done and get out because even though people want to hire her and get the closure they need it doesn’t stop their underlying fear and loathing shining through once they’ve received their answers. Not your usual career path, granted, but it’s the way Harper has chosen to make her living. A gift which allows her to find dead bodies, and when she gets close they show her the last few seconds of their life. It left her with some physical scars and weaknesses but more than that, it left her with a gift.
Harper had the misfortune, at the tender age of 15, to be struck by lightning. For the most part Harris’s new characters are relatively average mortals – except for our heroine Harper Connolly. Harris’s subject matter remains firmly entrenched in the paranormal but there is no sign of the supernatural creatures so prevalent in the Sookie series. Charlaine Harris, creator of Sookie Stackhouse, is back with a new series and it’s sure to be a hit.
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