Table Of ContentContents PrologueOne: QuayeTwo: Hunter BellThree: IsabelFour: Samson and DelilahFive: FlightSix: The Wax WomanSeven: The House of GodEight: EurekaNine: The Great Salt Lake CityTen: Sonny ChangEleven: Quaye's ArrivalTwelve: Jak MorseThirteen: The Woman in the SnowFourteen: The StrangerFifteen: The Preacher's SoulSixteen: Syau LouSeventeen: The AbductionEighteen: The InscriptionNineteen: The BurialTwenty: The FuneralTwenty-one: A Glass Darkly Twenty-two: Hunter's AbsenceTwenty-three: The Looking GlassTwenty-four: Broken GlassTwenty-five: NewsTwenty-six: Three of a KindTwenty-seven: Quaye's ChoiceTwenty-eight: The Lynching Twenty-nine: FarewellThirty: The RedemptionEpilogue
SynopsisAn ex-minister, sometime gambler, and fugitive from justice, Hunter Bell comes to the aid of Quaye MacGandley, a beautiful young Irish woman, abused and abandoned by a brutal husband, and together these two lost and wounded people find a way to bring healing to each other., When I started to writeThe Looking Glass,I intended to create a story about the healing power of hope and love. But as this story developed, a message began to emerge that I had not foreseen, a message about the distorted mirror in which we view ourselves, binding ourselves with shackles of self-doubt and fear.The Looking Glassis aptly named, for it is about seeing the reality of ourselves: to see a true reflection of who we are.It is the story of Hunter Bell, a Presbyterian minister turned gambler, and the founder of a gold camp named Bethel. (Which you may remember was Esther's hometown inThe Locket.) He is running from the bitter memories of his past, his ministry, and ultimately, from his God.Venturing into a blizzard to chase away wolves drawn close to his cabin by hunger, Hunter finds a beautiful young woman in the snow, wounded by the wolves and half dead with the cold. Her name is Quaye McGandley, and she is an Irish woman sold into marital slavery to a brutal husband who then brought her to America against her will. As Hunter nurses her back to health, he finds that his tender ministrations to Quaye have opened his heart to his greatest fear -- that he might love again.It is my hope that you, and those with whom you share my book, might through its message better see the divinity within yourself and the reality of who you are: worthy of love, gentleness, and grace.With hope,Richard Paul Evans