Redemption

From Nazi-occupied Norway to the lush richness of Southern California author Karin Johanne Boer takes us on her childhood journey through the poignant drama of being caught between two different cultures-neither of which she is allowed to embrace-and life without a mother.</P>The Hollywood stars of the 1940s place Boer in a glamorous milieu but their influence is loudly vilified by her reclusive father a film-set designer whose work includes <I>The Ten Commandments</I> and <I>The Longest Day Sadly</I> he is disparaging about work in Hollywood and wants desperately to return to Norway.</P>Karin's sister Kirsten steadfastly stands in the gap between Karin and the family's splintered past. But she is no match for the seductively beautiful German baroness who leads Karin now a teen into occult explorations. Karin obsessed with the fascinating spiritual forces on the other side becomes addicted. Now a young adult darkness and confusion of a deep and cloying kind close in over her mind and heart. Karin is presented with a way out-but it is one she is determined not to take.</P>Follow Karin's amazing journey toward redemption as she seeks to answer the two questions that continually haunt her: Who am I and where do I belong?</P>