Nancy Werlin was born and raised in Peabody, Massachusetts, USA and now lives near Boston. She received her bachelor’s degree in English from Yale. Since then, she has worked as a technical writer and editor for several computer software and Internet companies, while also writing fiction. Read more at 
Impossible by Nancy Werlin
This is a difficult review for me to write. Nancy Werlin makes several plotting decisions that don’t quite work for me, even though I can see the ways these decisions serve the narrative.
Impossible is a book I should have loved. I adore plots that hinge on the exact wording of curses and prophecies: “none of woman born,” “when two Mondays come together,” that sort of thing. Here is a whole novel based on that concept. Our heroine, Lucy Scarborough, must complete three seemingly impossible tasks in order to save herself and her unborn daughter.
The trouble begins on prom night, when Lucy is raped by a classmate. That’s bad enough by itself, but Lucy suspects that the boy wasn’t really “himself” when he attacked her, and that something even more frightening is afoot. Lucy becomes pregnant, and learns that she comes from a... Read More
