Presage

About the Book

Jake Butcher, an immoral and unethical pharmacist, has his palm read by an eighteen year old Georgia seer. Lydia discerns Butcher’s corrupt and debaucherous life, angering him. In retaliation Butcher orders his lieutenants to hook Lydia on drugs, then drive her into prostitution to pay for her habit. Escaping Butcher’s hold and kicking her drug habit, Lydia returns to palm reading in northern California. Years later, restless and dissatisfied with his wife, Butcher attends a convention in Sacramento where he has his palm read. Lydia realizes it’s Butcher. Mesmerized, Butcher falls under her spell. It’s now Lydia’s payback time for her years stolen by Jake Butcher

About the Author

Addison Thomas, raised and educated in Michigan, moved to the rural south as the Civil Rights movement gained momentum. The social fabric of the region, the surviving post civil war feudal structure, the layered classes organized to support the elite good old boy system, and the subjugation of justice to the powerful and wealthy was an enigma to him, straining at his ethical and moral beliefs. Often told, “You will never understand, you’re just a ‘Damn Yankee’” Thomas was an eye witness to a sea change in the South. During his thirty year sojourn, he gained insight into the region. and its people which he now shares in his several works