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Mother Nature has had enough and a day of reckoning is coming, foretold by words that mysteriously appear on the side of a shiny new building. When the reckoning arrives, in the form of a giant sinkhole that swallows the site of a planned development, a large lake, and several miles of interstate highway, the citizens of Opakulla, Florida struggle to understand what is happening. A geologist wants to study it, the developers relish its wild beauty, and the mayor plans to stop it. Only the owner of a local café, who speaks with the Ancients, understands it, and she isn't telling."In this lively and entertaining debut, the hapless characters struggle to understand the curious magic that is destroying their land and their dreams. Elizabeth McCulloch shares with us her own deep love of our fragile planet and lays out the consequences of our inadequate frame of reference for viewing the universe and its mysteries." ~ Pat Spears, author of It's Not Like I Knew Her and Dream Chaser