{"product_id":"winds-of-passage-nine-worlds-trilogy","title":"Winds of Passage (Nine Worlds Trilogy)","description":"In the realm of dreams there is but one choice ~ the rest is destiny.\n\nTowards the latter days of the Victorian era, three very different women, born on the jagged edge of the North Sea and shaped by the in-between worlds of their Norse culture, are each presented with a choice ~ a choice with unforeseeable outcomes. Throughout it all, the spirits of legend and religion guide their adventures.\nMarie, an imaginative thirteen-year-old, yearns to live an exciting and rich life rather than end up a fisherman’s wife, like her mother. She soon finds out dreams are only for the wealthy when without warning, her parents send her away to work in a stranger’s home. Marie loves her parents but she can’t forgive them for stealing away the last years of her childhood. Vowing to give herself a better life, Marie writes her Aunt Emma hoping she can spare her from a life of misery.\n\nEmma emigrated to Chicago in 1913, and though educated and self-sufficient, she has been concealing a distressing secret that pushed her to leave Norway, forever. Despite still being young, Emma sees no future for herself other than self-sacrifice and does not want Marie to suffer the same fate. A cousin, Sister Christine, had sponsored Emma to America and would do the same for Marie if she were aware of the need. Only their good cousin is stationed in China, where heathen beliefs, famines, plagues, warlords, demon possessions and abandoned baby girls are all in a days work.\n\nWhen a world war and dreadful pandemic ravage the globe, it makes it even more difficult to contact Sister Christine. Sister returns to Norway every eight years, then sets off for America for her retreats, and this could be her last. Reaching her in time may be Marie’s only path out of the class-based society her aunt and cousin had once worked so hard to escape.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1463720211\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.1463720211.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Davis, Susan Louise\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. Pages may have minimal notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44042710253745,"sku":"RDV.1463720211.G","price":14.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/skuimage_3cf886fe-78c8-4310-9a13-c1ad5c3181aa.jpg?v=1715365537","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/winds-of-passage-nine-worlds-trilogy","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}