<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>i fear no fate(for you are my fatemy sweet)... Painted against the backdrop of e.e.cummings poetry Chopin's Nocturnes and the unleashed passions of the times </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>River of Forgiveness</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a coming-of-age story set at the close of the Second World War. Eighteen-year-old Sydney Archumbault's chance encounter with an older British stranger awakens her longings to the exuberant power of her one true love forever altering the course of her life. Intrigued by this educated artistic man whom she later discovers is an escapee from an internment camp Sydney impulsively embarks into a complex and tumultuous relationship finding herself embroiled in a love that can never be.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p><p><br></p>