Rainbow in the Mist

By: Phyllis A. Whitney

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

Christy Loren has come to fear her gift of clairvoyance, an unwanted legacy from her mother, a famous psychic. Without warning, visions envelop her - visions that have guided the police, too late, to the bodies of murder victims. To escape these horrors, Christy flees her home in Long Island to seek peace and safety in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and the reassuring presence of her down-to-earth aunt.

But she finds that threatening mysteries await her in those mountains - mysteries that surround a writer's recent death and the disappearance of the unearthly, enigmatic Deirdre. Christy senses secrets locked in the heart of Deirdre's tormented husband, with whom she fears she is becoming too emotionally involved - and haunting Deirdre's troubled son.

Caught in this ominous web, Christy must come to terms with her unwanted psychic powers. As she is drawn into the search for Deirdre, she sees with increasing clarity that the mysteries have a connection to a blood-chilling dream that haunts her. In trying to escape her fate, she has unwittingly embraced it. Now, to uncover the truth, Christy must confront her gift of precognition and her dream. The shocking truth will bring her face-to-face with real and terrifying danger.

©1989 Phyllis A. Witney (P)1998 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Rainbow in the mist

This was a story of a family of psychics who are struggling to use and control their abilities.

I bought this book for the narration.

I found this story trite and flat. I bought the book because of the narrator, and she didn't disappoint.

Book was just ok

Book was ok.But near the end it messes up an kinda left hanging very upsetting!

Great find

very interesting story and was not let down. There is a chapter 17 even though is does not show it

Disappointed 😞

The book ended at chapter 16. The book never finished...disappointing... it stopped right before the climax!

Loved it, must read!

The characters are amazing. The story had me on the edge of my seat wondering what was going to happen next. Suspenseful and heart warming to see new love flourish when old love has changed to friendship.

Too woo-woo for my taste

Phyllis Whitney lived to the ripe old age of 104, and continued to write well into her 90s; that is remarkable, and deserves admiration. And yet I can't help feeling that her best work was published in the 1960s and early '70s, perhaps not coincidentally during the height of the gothic/romantic-suspense craze. It's a shame that Audible doesn't offer any of those early (and vastly superior, in my opinion) works, but only a handful of her later titles.

By the time this book was published in 1989, many of the genre tropes that had been fresh and exciting a quarter of a century earlier had grown tired and stale from overuse.

Perhaps it was an attempt at bringing something original to the table that led Ms. Whitney to people her novel with a collection of clairvoyants, and to lard her prose with New Age mumbo jumbo. Still worse is the fact that that she contradicts herself as to exactly what psychic powers her characters possess. At the beginning of the book, Christie is somewhat traumatized by the fact that she can sense danger only after it has already occurred; she can tell if someone has been murdered, and even lead the police to the spot where the body is buried, but she can do nothing to prevent the crime. But by the end of the book, she's foreseeing like crazy, with no reason given for the change. I fully expected her mother to explain that she has finally opened herself up and embraced her inner light, or some such nonsense. (Hey, it doesn't have to be a *good* reason.)

It's a pity that an author of Ms. Whitney's stature is only available in audio through books that don't represent her best work. I hope Audible will eventually release her entire catalog, including "Silverhill," "The Winter People," and "Seven Tears for Apollo," to name only a few.

Hallmark Movie...

This is a good example of how a narrator affects a story. I've learned to not be too picky about them, BUT, this narrator was terrible. This story is a very light, good mystery, in no way a thriller. It is totally in the wrong category. It's also a very light, light romance. The pace is really good though, if it weren't for that, I wouldn't have been able to finish it. The end is a little corny, but as long as it ends HEA I'm good with it. If you like Hallmark and Lifetime movies, you will definitely enjoy this.

interesting story

I liked this story but realized after I started it I had listened to another one in this series.

An unusual & unique story

The story,characters, and conclusion stayed with me and required a lot of reflection in order to be at with peace with it as a whole. Yet, it was still so was so fascinating I had a difficult time putting it down to go sleep at night.A totally amazing read.