The woman has an enchanting story to tell-the sweeping story of a love affair from 200 years before. This hauntingly atmospheric love story opens in the northernmost corner of Maine, when a distraught young woman is brought into the emergency room, and treated by a doctor who is strangely drawn to her-even though she has just admitted to killing a man and leaving him in the frozen North woods. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion.

This reading group guide for The Taker includes an introduction, discussion questions, ideas for enhancing your book club, and a Q&A with author Alma Katsu. Part historical novel, part supernatural page-turner, The Taker is a “mesmerizing” ( Booklist, starred review) story about the power of unrequited love not only to elevate and sustain, but also to blind and ultimately destroy. And now, two centuries later, the key to her healing and her salvation lies with Dr. But the price she pays is steep-an immortal bond that chains her to a terrible fate for all eternity. Consumed as a child by her love for the founder’s son, Jonathan, Lanny will do anything to be with him. Andrew, Maine, back when it was a Puritan settlement. Her impassioned account begins at the turn of the 19th century in the same small town of St. As she begins to tell her story, Luke finds himself utterly captivated. He is inexplicably drawn to her…despite the fact that she is a murder suspect with a police escort. A mysterious woman with plenty of dark secrets, Lanny is unlike anyone Luke has ever met. But the minute Lanore McIlvrae-Lanny-enters his ER, she changes his life forever.

Luke Findley is expecting another quiet evening of frostbite and the occasional domestic dispute. On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural Maine, Dr. True love can last an eternity…but immortality comes at a price.

From the author of The Hunger-hailed by Stephen King as “deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down”-comes a hauntingly atmospheric tale filled with alchemy, lust, and betrayal.

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