A Curse Dark as Gold

By: Elizabeth C. Bunce

Published March 1st 2008 by Arthur A. Levine Books

Category: Arts

Pages: 396 pages

ISBN: 9780439895767

Description:
Charlotte Miller has always scoffed at talk of a curse on her family's woolen mill, which holds her beloved small town together. But after her father's death, the bad luck piles up: departing workers, impossible debts, an overbearing uncle. Then a stranger named Jack Spinner offers a tempting proposition: He can turn straw into gold thread, for the small price of her mother's ring. As Charlotte is drawn deeper into her bargains with Spinner-and a romance with the local banker-she must unravel the truth of the curse on the mill and save the community she's always called home.