Beyond the Blue: A Novel

Two Worlds. Two Women. One Love.. In 1975 an American girl named Genevieve loses her mother when a plane full of orphans crashes in war-ravaged Vietnam. Miles away in the countryside seven-year-old Lan a Vietnamese girl is forced out of her family home by her own brother who has joined the Viet Cong. Worlds apart these two girls come into womanhood struggling to recover a sense of family–until their journeys suddenly converge. . Lan has grown up in the harsh realities of post-war Vietnam but she yearns for a better life for her children. Meanwhile Genevieve marries and faced with infertility decides to adopt a child from the country her own mother loved so deeply. But the uncertainty and risk of international adoption threatens to overwhelm both women before their hearts and their families can be healed.. Beyond the Blue is the story of enormous losses unthinkable choices and the transforming power of Gods love for the children of the world.