The Fingerprint of Destiny by Laura Schofer
In the small suburban community of Hope’s Point , Long Island something has gone horribly wrong. A series of arsons in landmark homes, now run down and over run by Latino immigrants, is destroying the community. Ellie Sinclair, is the troubled publisher of a small town newspaper struggling to make ends meet. The arsons are just another story until Ellie’s estranged mother, Hortensia Borgias Sinclair returns to town and dies in the latest fire.
Ellie wonders if it is destiny, as Hortensia always claimed, or something more insidious? Now Ellie must find out who is behind the arsons and why. She must shine a light in the dark places of her town – the slums and factories, where Latino immigrants struggle to make a life in suburban America.
Then there is a larger mystery to be solved. All the women in Ellie’s family are born with a small red birthmark on their left arm, a signature called the Fingerprint of Destiny. In a series of flashbacks interspersed throughout the novel, we learn about the violent fate of the other women in Ellie’s family. These stories are filled with adventure, magic, murder, retribution, love, war and an obsession that spans the centuries and takes the reader from the jungles and plains of Venezuela to suburban Long Island. Can Ellie carve out a life for herself or will she succumb to the Fingerprint of Destiny?
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Ms. Schofer has an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University and a BA from Wheaton College. She is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, The Pen and Brush, and is an associate member of the Dramatist Guild.
What inspired you to write your book?
The book wanted to be born. I was just the vessel from which it sprang.
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Prologue
“Some call it original sin – that hereditary stain that defines us as human and therefore imperfect.
The Borgias family calls it the Fingerprint of Destiny.
We inherit it from mother to daughter: a swollen bulging mass of tissue that resembles a bruised fingerprint branded on our left arm. It means you belong to the Borgias family. Like original sin, the mark keeps us from a state of perfect grace.
All humans are marked for death from the very moment of our conception. After all, we are nothing more than a sack of soft and fragrant flesh brimming with emotion, with bloodlust. But in the case of the Borgias women, temptation comes not through a serpent, but a man; it has always been men who lead us to our fall from grace.
The story began with Graciela Borgias and then her daughter, Norma, born when Venezuela was still all wilderness. The next Borgias woman to bear the mark was Yolanda. She was the great-granddaughter of Norma and lived on an hatos, or ranch, in los llanos, the great plains of Venezuela. Seventy-five years after Yolanda’s death, Maria Teresa was born with the mark. She witnessed Venezuela’s struggle for[…]”
Excerpt From: Laura Schofer. “The Fingerprint of Destiny.” iBooks.
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