This was another magical story from Hoffman. Here we meet the Sparrow women - women who wake up on their thirteenth birthday and realize they have special gifts. These gifts can be anything: the ability to not feel pain, the ability to know if someone is lying, to dream other people's dreams.returnreturnStella Sparrow is the youngest Sparrow and her ability is to see how a person will die. It is, quite obviously, very frightening for her and she desperately wants to help a woman that she believes will be brutally murdered. She begs her father to help the woman - but when the woman's body is found, Stella's father is the prime suspect. returnreturnStella moves in with her grandmother in order to protect her from the media frenzy that her father's imprisonment creates and she learns of her ancestry and the incredible Sparrow women. It's hard to describe all of the intricacies of the characters - there are many people that we meet and they are all so important in the lives of those around them. It was just another great, moving book by Hoffman - I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a little magic in their lives and loves to read about women triumphing over their pasts and looking forward to wonderful futures.