J Christopher Wickham

The Epic Forgotten Book One: the Girl in the Rain J Christopher Wickham

"The Deceiver knows the Hungarian...the wise man keeps twenty-six ghosts in his library...and the widow carries the words of the dead."  
 
~ From the Journal of John Chapel (translated from Latin)
 
These are the final words scrawled in a cryptic journal that may hold answers about the late John Chapel's debilitating fear of the rain, why he spoke in dead tongues in the midst of waking nightmares, and might just explain his obsession with finding a woman who didn't exist - the "Girl in the Rain".  
 
Hers was just one of many faces he insisted that he saw in the rain - one of the many voices that whispered their warnings to him about an inescapable fate at the hands of a man without a name.  
 
Now his widow, Gwenn, suffers that same debilitating fear of the rain that washed her husband away like a fingerprint on a window. She must face this fear to discover the truth about her husband's fate. With the aid of this cryptic journal, an eccentric history professor and a con artist, she begins a journey that will challenge her faith, the limits of her sanity and even her love for her husband.