maker, alvin (fictional character)

Collects the first two stories of "The Tales of Alvin Maker," in which a young boy named Alvin, the seventh son of a seventh son, lives in an alternate American frontier. Life is hard, but there folk magic is real, and Alvin is about to discover he has the gift of power, a power which only a young girl with second sight can help him learn to use against the dark forces arrayed against him.

Alvin has had a vision of building a Crystal City in which peace and freedom reign, but his wife Peggy has had a vision of death and destruction, so now they must decide which vision they should believe in.

Alvin has had a vision of building a Crystal City in which peace and freedom reign, but his wife Peggy has had a vision of death and destruction, so now they must decide which vision they should believe in.

Presents the sixth installment in the alternative history in which Alvin Maker, a man who has the magical ability to create, repair, heal, or destroy, travels to New Orleans where he saves his friends from a deadly plague and takes the first steps toward his envisioned destiny in the Crystal City.