Russian Mennonite Chronicles

<h1><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>FIRST CAME THE HORSES. Then came the fires. Then they came for us.</em></h1><h3><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>Book One: While the Great War raged the fires of Russian Revolution sparked in Ukraine.</span></h3><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As a young Mennonite woman in Ukraine Katarina dreams of defying tradition to become a missionary school teacher. But </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>when</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> she's injured during a rebel attack on the family farm her future </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is upended</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Suddenly </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>aware of Russia's political crisis Katarina sees the growing distrust between the locals and the peace-loving German Mennonites. Fear rises loyalties shift and death threats appear. Increasing violence spawns grave and hasty decisions and some colonists succumb to the pressure to leave. As Katarina's world unravels decisions loom. Will she depend on her passive faith to fight the forthcoming evil? Or will Katarina abandon all hope and flee with the others? </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>1951: The German government says Katarina died during WW2. Her son Peter </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>isn't convinced</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. Do her diaries from the Russian Revolution hold the clues? Is there a chance that she's still alive?</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Set during the darkest days of Ukraine's history Katarina's Dark Shadow portrays the courageous human struggle inside a distinct faith during violent political times.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Inspired by true stories and actual </strong><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>events</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> this book will </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>interest those</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> with German-Prussian Ukrainian or Russian Mennonite ancestry.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This Award-winning Canadian Christian Author (</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Miranda J. Chivers)</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> grew up surrounded by family storytellers reciting their harrowing personal accounts of fleeing Russia under the threat of death. After a visit to her ancestral regions in Poland and Ukraine she yearned to share this unique Mennonite history. When she isn't researching writing or watching true-life movies MJ travels the world exploring cultural history. She lives in Niagara Canada.</span></p>