The Northern Lights SeriesBook Two"Lisa Tawn Bergren has a straightforward, evocative style of writing that makes her characters breathe. They walk right across the page and straight into your heart." --Francine Rivers, author of Redeeming LoveSOME TIES CAN NEVER BE BROKENAs they build new lives in America, Tora, Elsa, Kaatje, and Karl each experience a personal tragedy that threatens to destroy everything they left Norway to find. Tora's web of lies has cost her a successful future with the man she loves. When tragedy strikes, Elsa must draw upon her faith and the strength she can muster to discover who she is and the path she must follow. After her husband's disappearance, Kaatje struggles to raise two young daughters and tend her farm, and Karl finds himself caught in a life of loneliness and emptiness. Only by placing their trust in God--and in each other--will they pass through these rough waters and find the safety of the harbor. From the richly forested banks of the Washington Territory to the burgeoning city of Yokohama and across the turbulent, danger-filled waves of the open sea--experience the epic saga of perseverance, pain, faith, and calling in the Northern Lights series. From the Trade Paperback edition.