When her hus­band dies and leaves her pen­ni­less, a 1930s Mem­phis socialite becomes a for­tuneteller, only to dis­cover that she has the true sight.

Nell Marc­hand has never worked a day in her life. When her phi­lan­der­ing skunk of a hus­band sud­denly drops dead, leav­ing her with­out one red cent to her name, she lands smack dab in the mid­dle of the hard times she has only heard about in news­reels. Nell tries to find a job to sup­port her­self and the house­hold that depends on her, really she does. Her typ­ing is a dis­as­ter, she cuts off every call in her one day as a tele­phone oper­a­tor, and laun­dress leaves her back aching. There has to be an eas­ier way.

A reluc­tant visit to pros­per­ous Joseph Cal­en­dar, her flighty mother-in-law’s medium, per­suades Nell that there are for­tunes to be made in, well, telling for­tunes. As soci­ety for­tuneteller Madame Nelora, she is soon the toast of Mem­phis. But when a des­per­ate father begs Nell to find his daugh­ter, she has a true vision of the miss­ing girl. Ter­ri­fied that she’s los­ing her mind, Nell turns to Cal­en­dar. She may sus­pect he’s a char­la­tan, but he is the only man who can help her embrace her gift and the respon­si­bil­ity it entails. To find the girl–and unravel a secret from her own past–Nell must out­wit a cor­rupt banker and his gang­ster pals who will do any­thing to keep her hidden.

Fortune’s Fool was a Golden Heart final­ist. It also won the Chicago-North Fire & Ice, Cleve­land Rocks, and Golden Gate­way com­pe­ti­tions and was a Mar­lene and Toronto Gold final­ist. The amaz­ing cover won a Reader’s Choice Award in the Judge a Book by Its Cover competition.

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