“Feehan emerges as a bright young star and it will be interesting to see what other works she has in store for us in the future.”
— Mary Barnes, Prairie Fire
“Maggi Feehan’s powerful writing provides a satisfying tale.”
– Judith Silverthorne, Saskbooks Review
The Serpent’s Veil
A Novel
Spanning three continents in the final decade of the nineteenth century, The Serpent’s Veil traces the intertwined journeys of two haunted souls—Constance Stubbington and Ank Maguire—as they confront the legacies of empire, the grief of lost family, and the strange, unwelcome gifts of intuition that set them apart.
After a violent fall from her horse, Constance—a fiercely intelligent woman who has long defied her father’s control—wakes in London’s Guy’s Hospital, disoriented and alone. No one will tell her where her father is, or what her accident has truly cost her. In the ward, she meets Ank Maguire, a man marked by secrets of his own. The two soon discover they share a gift—and a burden: the ability to cross the thin boundary between the living and the spirit world.
Told through dreams, memory, and vivid present-tense scenes, the novel travels from the boglands of Ireland to the colonial streets of Victoria, from the gilded decay of the Raj to the shadowed alleys of Southwark. As the past collapses into the present, Constance and Ank must navigate visions, betrayal, and the ghosts—both real and personal—that pursue them.
The Serpent’s Veil is a richly layered tale of mysticism and survival, where birth and death are fluid states, and where transformation comes not through escape, but through the courage to see what lies beneath the surface of things.
276 pages/trade paper
List Price: $18.95
Buy it from the publisher: Thistledown Press
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