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The terrible news leaves Hope pregnant, a widow, and alone. She spirals downhill faster than her loving friends can save her. And then, a stunning realization, and a miracle occur. Could God be trying to get Hope's attention?
Defying the social restrictions of 1927, Katherine, a young American doctor, crosses the Ma'rhu River in the obscure tropical country of Takau. Determined to open a clinic in the slums of Am'rha Bo, Katherine wins hearts and defies authorities. She survives an earthquake and gets tangled in a violent revolution. Her soul is awakened and she experiences the revelations of cultural immersion. As The Island Gardens of Takau disclose their secrets, she discovers allies in unlikely guises and a lover whose extravagant idealism finally exceeds her own.
Sample chapters of the novel published by RiverWood Books.
Bell is a slave at a cruel plantation. But one day when her family is sold to another plantation Bell decides to go across all of the confederacy to find them and bring them to the north. She will only be able to do this with her trusted friend who somehow dissapears!
I am not a person, at least not in the eyes of my culture. I am a pawn, a piece of cattle to be rattled off to the higest bidder. With the simple press of clay to wax, my entire life is sealed away to a man I could never love.
Their families and pasts are linked, not by blood or by marriage. Whether they were destined to meet or not, they did. It was the year 1495 and the Scarlet Sweat plague had just wiped out the population of Aniatea. Conscripted by city states - who are fighting over the lost city of Venicia due to it's rumored power source - as mercenaries, Ohiel, Zese and Eian aren't always grateful that their pasts shaped them for this war they are being forced to fight - whether they want to or not. These three men find themselves bound together in a way that they never thought possible, both in the past and the future.
A fast-paced romance about the Islamic invasion of Spain and the legendary Battle of Covadonga!
A tale full of epic events, bloody battles, diabolical and erotic intrigues.
A formidable bond between a Pagan father and a Christian son who struggle for survival among the people who lived at the dawn of Europe!
This story is inspired by my recent vacation in Corregidor – one of the strongholds of the Philippines and the entire Pacific during the World War II. The main characters are fictional, but the other personalities mentioned and the events are all listed in history. My fellows, if in case you find something wrong in the dates or the arrangement of events, please feel free to correct me :)
I’ll try to add more details and pics when I get the time. Please feel free to leave me any comment both on the story and on my writing. Thanks for reading :)
For more than three decades, Rosie Thomas has enthralled readers around the world. Now, in The Kashmir Shawl, her most ambitious book yet, Thomas sweeps through time and place, and her readers will discover in this novel a captivating, romantic epic--an irresistible story of enduring love and memory.
It is the eve of 1941 and World War II is engulfing the globe. Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Britain to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India, but when he leaves her in the exotic lakeside of Srinagar to take on a complicated mission elsewhere, she discovers a new world. Here, in the heart of Kashmir, the British dance, flirt, and gossip against the backdrop of war and Nerys soon becomes caught up in a dangerous liaison. By the time she is reunited with her husband, she is a very different woman. .
Years later, Nery’s granddaughter Mair Ellis clears out her dead father’s house and finds an exquisite shawl--a kaleidoscope of silvery blues and greens. Wrapped in the folds of this delicate object is a lock of a child’s curly hair. With nothing else to go on, Mair decides to trace her roots back to Kashmir, embarking on a quest that will change her own life forever. .
Field of Blackbirds is a completed, 120,000 word, historical fiction, primarily set in the Balkan region of Yugoslavia.
During a time of ethnic cleansing and genocide, four young men, hemispheres apart, set out for one common purpose; to find God’s mercy. Eventually, wearing different uniforms, their values, ideas and misconceptions collide during the Kosovo Crisis, in 1992.
Reed: A baseball loving, all-American, everyday saint, who is ready to serve his country, but must prove that his stomach is as strong as his conviction when tossed into the blood-soaked fields of ethnic genocide. Lazar: A poor Serb, who joins the Yugoslav army out of patriotic duty, is forced to cleanse the village of his Muslim girlfriend. Will the guilty jaws of betrayal swallow him whole like Jonah and the whale? Marcielli: A classic Italian, Don Juan and soccer pro, who forfeits a future of fame and glory to join the military so he and his new bride can shake the relentless Italian Mafia from repaying an unwanted debt to his family. And finally, Radenko: A military law graduate and the son of a prominent general from Montenegro, who battles his conscience while defending top-level war criminals, is plagued by the moral influences of his deceased mother. Can he provide a fair defense for his clients?
Be prepared to experience life through their eyes. How far are you willing to follow your convictions? What really defines treason? Whose values are right anyways? Where will you stand as these young men could be fatally challenged with bringing moral courage and compassion to a horror-stricken way of life? You will feel with them, love with them, even hate with them, and you will pray they make the right decisions.
The terrible news leaves Hope pregnant, a widow, and alone. She spirals downhill faster than her loving friends can save her. And then, a stunning realization, and a miracle occur. Could God be trying to get Hope's attention?
Defying the social restrictions of 1927, Katherine, a young American doctor, crosses the Ma'rhu River in the obscure tropical country of Takau. Determined to open a clinic in the slums of Am'rha Bo, Katherine wins hearts and defies authorities. She survives an earthquake and gets tangled in a violent revolution. Her soul is awakened and she experiences the revelations of cultural immersion. As The Island Gardens of Takau disclose their secrets, she discovers allies in unlikely guises and a lover whose extravagant idealism finally exceeds her own.
Sample chapters of the novel published by RiverWood Books.
Bell is a slave at a cruel plantation. But one day when her family is sold to another plantation Bell decides to go across all of the confederacy to find them and bring them to the north. She will only be able to do this with her trusted friend who somehow dissapears!
I am not a person, at least not in the eyes of my culture. I am a pawn, a piece of cattle to be rattled off to the higest bidder. With the simple press of clay to wax, my entire life is sealed away to a man I could never love.
Their families and pasts are linked, not by blood or by marriage. Whether they were destined to meet or not, they did. It was the year 1495 and the Scarlet Sweat plague had just wiped out the population of Aniatea. Conscripted by city states - who are fighting over the lost city of Venicia due to it's rumored power source - as mercenaries, Ohiel, Zese and Eian aren't always grateful that their pasts shaped them for this war they are being forced to fight - whether they want to or not. These three men find themselves bound together in a way that they never thought possible, both in the past and the future.
A fast-paced romance about the Islamic invasion of Spain and the legendary Battle of Covadonga!
A tale full of epic events, bloody battles, diabolical and erotic intrigues.
A formidable bond between a Pagan father and a Christian son who struggle for survival among the people who lived at the dawn of Europe!
This story is inspired by my recent vacation in Corregidor – one of the strongholds of the Philippines and the entire Pacific during the World War II. The main characters are fictional, but the other personalities mentioned and the events are all listed in history. My fellows, if in case you find something wrong in the dates or the arrangement of events, please feel free to correct me :)
I’ll try to add more details and pics when I get the time. Please feel free to leave me any comment both on the story and on my writing. Thanks for reading :)
For more than three decades, Rosie Thomas has enthralled readers around the world. Now, in The Kashmir Shawl, her most ambitious book yet, Thomas sweeps through time and place, and her readers will discover in this novel a captivating, romantic epic--an irresistible story of enduring love and memory.
It is the eve of 1941 and World War II is engulfing the globe. Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Britain to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India, but when he leaves her in the exotic lakeside of Srinagar to take on a complicated mission elsewhere, she discovers a new world. Here, in the heart of Kashmir, the British dance, flirt, and gossip against the backdrop of war and Nerys soon becomes caught up in a dangerous liaison. By the time she is reunited with her husband, she is a very different woman. .
Years later, Nery’s granddaughter Mair Ellis clears out her dead father’s house and finds an exquisite shawl--a kaleidoscope of silvery blues and greens. Wrapped in the folds of this delicate object is a lock of a child’s curly hair. With nothing else to go on, Mair decides to trace her roots back to Kashmir, embarking on a quest that will change her own life forever. .
Field of Blackbirds is a completed, 120,000 word, historical fiction, primarily set in the Balkan region of Yugoslavia.
During a time of ethnic cleansing and genocide, four young men, hemispheres apart, set out for one common purpose; to find God’s mercy. Eventually, wearing different uniforms, their values, ideas and misconceptions collide during the Kosovo Crisis, in 1992.
Reed: A baseball loving, all-American, everyday saint, who is ready to serve his country, but must prove that his stomach is as strong as his conviction when tossed into the blood-soaked fields of ethnic genocide. Lazar: A poor Serb, who joins the Yugoslav army out of patriotic duty, is forced to cleanse the village of his Muslim girlfriend. Will the guilty jaws of betrayal swallow him whole like Jonah and the whale? Marcielli: A classic Italian, Don Juan and soccer pro, who forfeits a future of fame and glory to join the military so he and his new bride can shake the relentless Italian Mafia from repaying an unwanted debt to his family. And finally, Radenko: A military law graduate and the son of a prominent general from Montenegro, who battles his conscience while defending top-level war criminals, is plagued by the moral influences of his deceased mother. Can he provide a fair defense for his clients?
Be prepared to experience life through their eyes. How far are you willing to follow your convictions? What really defines treason? Whose values are right anyways? Where will you stand as these young men could be fatally challenged with bringing moral courage and compassion to a horror-stricken way of life? You will feel with them, love with them, even hate with them, and you will pray they make the right decisions.