K M Del Mara

A wealthy man knows he can dominate because he is sure he has what everyone else wants.But in that he may be misguided, and the gods will only put up with a misguided man for so long.Somewhere in time, on the edge of a cold ocean, a sleepy fishing village is being governed - and plundered - by ambitious mining and lumber companies.These men have all the wealth. They have all the power. They think their way of life is imperishable.Then one of their own changes the agenda, because he has learned something about wealth from these backwoods villagers, something that endures in the human mind and heart.In tales that come from a place far to the north of everywhere, the conflict between powerful and powerless supplies the turmoil.The oldest force in the world supplies the resolution.

A tale of cat and mouse.A good old-fashioned adventure.A story for anyone who has wandered, lost and alone, or wishes they could. This is the tale of a girl called Anya Netherby who, with one rash decision, suddenly finds herself on the run. She has no one to turn to and nowhere to go. She wanders aimlessly, beginning to fear she has made a bad mistake, and with no idea how to put it right. Her luck turns when she discovers an abandoned puppy. The dog is the reason Anya meets an itinerant photographer, and then everything begins to change for her. She discovers that her homelessness is hardly unique. It is the Great Depression and, like her, hordes of people have taken to the road. She meets peddlers and tramps and hobos, for her, a new kind of people, with different values and offbeat attitudes. They have met their disappointments and failures by side-stepping them. They ride the rails, they wrangle rickety trucks and horse-drawn wagons, they walk. She sees people who are doing anything they can to survive: whole families, lonely men, abandoned and orphaned children, and teenagers by the thousands, all traveling the highways and byways of America. She comes to realize that to wander aimlessly is not pointless. A person may not know where she is going, but the way ahead need not be treacherous. It is, in fact, how all important journeys begin.