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In this real-life adventure, Justa, youngest of ten children in a Mennonite family in WWII era Ukraine, revisits a childhood in totalitarian Stalinist USSR. When authorities swoop down in the middle of the night to seize neighbor’s fathers, Justa begins to dread the dark. Would her beloved papa be next? As both armies—German and Russian—approach, thirteen-year-old Justa and her family hurriedly pack their wagon to flee. What valuables should they take? What must they leave behind? How will the absent brothers find them? Will the family ever be whole again?

Legends of Daer: Champions of Tylwyth follows Isabella Strongfellow, a young, tomboyish farmer girl with a courageous soul as she journeys to find a cure for her brother magical slumber. Blaming herself for the incident, Isabella will stop at nothing to help save him. In her father shadow, she travels across Lyer Island bound to a quest tangled in intrigue that reaches across boundaries she never imagined.