The Edge of the Sky – Drusilla Campbell
Lana Porter had it all-a happy marriage and two wonderful daughters-until her husband’s tragic accident left her near-perfect life in ruins… Now, nearly a year later, Lana is still picking up the pieces when she is blindsided by the appearance of her adopted daughter Micki’s birth father.
He comes bearing startling news: that Micki’s birth mother was a rock and roll star who lived fast and died young. His glamorous life leaves Micki starstruck by its possibilities. But life’s unexpected twists and turns are taking their toll. Still reeling from her father’s death and envious of her sister’s newfound celebrity, good girl Beth spirals out of control. Her grades drop and she starts running with a dangerous crowd. Just when Lana feels that she can no longer handle her fractured family, she finds support from an unexpected source. And discovers that opening her heart helps it to heal…that the bonds between mothers and daughters can bend, but won’t ever break…and that families are never perfect-but their love for each other can be…
Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.
Only one woman can save her world from barbarian invasion but to do so will mean sacrificing everything she holds dear – love, loyalty and maybe life itself . . .
In the early 1920s, in the remote village of Ghamsar, Talla and Sardar, two teenagers dreaming of a better life, fall in love and marry. Sardar brings his young bride with him across the mountains to the suburbs of Tehran, where the couple settles down and builds a home. From the outskirts of the capital city, they will watch as the Qajar dynasty falls and Reza Khan rises to power as Reza Shah Pahlavi.
