Miriam Black understands when you will die. Still in her early twenties, she’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart episodes, strokes, suicides, and sluggish deaths by malignancy. But when Miriam hitches a ride with truck driver Louis Darling and shakes his hand, she views that in four weeks he will become gruesomely murdered while he calls her name. Miriam has given up attempting to save lots of people; that just makes their deaths happen. No matter what she will, she can’t save Louis. But if she really wants to stay alive, she’ll have to try. “Blackbirds is usually a tale of loss and what it takes to make items right. It’s a tale about fate and exactly how occasionally, if we wrestle with it hard plenty of, maybe we are able to change it. It’s the kind of publication that doesn’t release even after you’ve put it down.” – STEPHEN BLACKMOORE