There are authors who can bring twists in stories that get carved on the mind forever and Catherine Coulter is one of them. The author is so strong in writing fantasies and fictional stories that comparing any other author of the era with her is not very much easy. She can bring out the best in a character within no time and the evidence of this brilliance can be witnessed in Reckoning.
There are a number of novels that have portrayed this brilliance of the author. Blowout: An FBI Thriller, Book 9 is present in the long list of novels that have been an instant hit too. Anne Flosnik has given another fluent performance in the narration which has become a routine with her now.
The story of this novel opens with the description of an orphan that is left on the doorstep of a church. No one knows who the father of the orphan is but Grayson thinks that the child should be taken care of immediately. So he takes the child home and things start going on quite well and that too in a much better way than before.
After many years as the child grows into a fine individual, the reality is brought to the surface about the parentage of the child. The people around think that they have made a mistake because Barnaby i.e the child that was found on the door of the church should have been killed at that instant. Saving the child was the biggest mistake made by the people of the church and now they will have to pay for their big mistake.