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'Deep Snow - Narrow Path' ebook free promotional will run from February 14th to February 18th.
Lots of people will undoubtedly receive Kindles and other tablets as gifts from that 'special someone' for Valentine's Day.
They'll be looking for books to download, so I'm giving plenty of advance notice.
Co-authored by Yumiko Ichihara and Roland Cheney, the ebook can be reviewed here;
http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Snow-Narrow-Yumiko-Ichihara-ebook/dp/B00HDOSTEA/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
The Japanese girl's name Miyuki can mean 'deep snow'; Kyle can mean 'narrow path'.
They meet at a campground deep in the California Rocky Mountains and form a temporary friendship based on the most tenuous of bonds.
Two children, a ten year old American boy and a ten year old Japanese girl, are kidnapped from a campground in the California Rocky Mountains after the deaths of the boy's divorced father and both of the girl's parents, and escape from the child traffickers in the South Pacific.
"You take that pretty little geisha doll and git on out of here before they come and grab you both!"
"But—"
"I said go! Now! Run!! Take the girl and find the Moon Rise, and sail her, boy!"
Motivated by the dying words of Richard, their former captor, when he is shot and realizes his life is about to end, the two children seek out and commandeer Richard's modern two-masted forty-three meter schooner with computerized auto-pilot and power-assisted roller-furling main and jib sails, and set sail on a solo 4,500 mile voyage -almost 8,000 kilometers- fraught with danger in an attempt to traverse the South Pacific from Fiji Island to Japan.
Carefree as the wind aboard the big ultra-modern 43-meter Dutch-built schooner, masters of their own fate, they misinterpret a medical diagnosis the girl overheard earlier and do not realize a dark cloud hangs over her head.
"She said I have, um, it was; 'ah—cute'," Miyuki-chan paused, remembering carefully. "'Ah—cute loo—kee—mee—ah'."
"Ah—cute—loo—kee—mee—ah," Kyle-kun repeated equally slowly, frowning in confusion. "So—what's so 'cute' about being sick? Wait. That sounds like; 'acute leukemia'. Woah! I heard of that before!"
"Eh?" Miyuki-chan touched her upper lip and the septum of her nose gently to see if she had finally stopped bleeding -which she had- and blinked in puzzlement. "What dat?"
"I'm not sure. I think it's some kind of sickness. Like a cancer. A very powerful, very deadly kind of cancer."
Kyle-kun suddenly stopped speaking, realizing the scariness of his own words, but it was too late. Miyuki-chan was staring at him in momentary horror.
"I not look sick, ne. Just feel tire. I wonder what it mean, ka?"
"Hmm. I'm not so sure," Kyle-kun replied. "Kids who get it always go bald. They lose all their hair. But you're not going bald."
Miyuki-chan reached up and felt her hair, to see if it was coming out. It wasn't. Not by so much as a single strand.
"Ee-eh," she remarked negatively. "Not bald, ne."
"Then maybe they were wrong, huh?" Kyle-kun said.
"Mm," Miyuki-chan nodded.
Lots of people will undoubtedly receive Kindles and other tablets as gifts from that 'special someone' for Valentine's Day.
They'll be looking for books to download, so I'm giving plenty of advance notice.
Co-authored by Yumiko Ichihara and Roland Cheney, the ebook can be reviewed here;
http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Snow-Narrow-Yumiko-Ichihara-ebook/dp/B00HDOSTEA/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
The Japanese girl's name Miyuki can mean 'deep snow'; Kyle can mean 'narrow path'.
They meet at a campground deep in the California Rocky Mountains and form a temporary friendship based on the most tenuous of bonds.
Two children, a ten year old American boy and a ten year old Japanese girl, are kidnapped from a campground in the California Rocky Mountains after the deaths of the boy's divorced father and both of the girl's parents, and escape from the child traffickers in the South Pacific.
"You take that pretty little geisha doll and git on out of here before they come and grab you both!"
"But—"
"I said go! Now! Run!! Take the girl and find the Moon Rise, and sail her, boy!"
Motivated by the dying words of Richard, their former captor, when he is shot and realizes his life is about to end, the two children seek out and commandeer Richard's modern two-masted forty-three meter schooner with computerized auto-pilot and power-assisted roller-furling main and jib sails, and set sail on a solo 4,500 mile voyage -almost 8,000 kilometers- fraught with danger in an attempt to traverse the South Pacific from Fiji Island to Japan.
Carefree as the wind aboard the big ultra-modern 43-meter Dutch-built schooner, masters of their own fate, they misinterpret a medical diagnosis the girl overheard earlier and do not realize a dark cloud hangs over her head.
"She said I have, um, it was; 'ah—cute'," Miyuki-chan paused, remembering carefully. "'Ah—cute loo—kee—mee—ah'."
"Ah—cute—loo—kee—mee—ah," Kyle-kun repeated equally slowly, frowning in confusion. "So—what's so 'cute' about being sick? Wait. That sounds like; 'acute leukemia'. Woah! I heard of that before!"
"Eh?" Miyuki-chan touched her upper lip and the septum of her nose gently to see if she had finally stopped bleeding -which she had- and blinked in puzzlement. "What dat?"
"I'm not sure. I think it's some kind of sickness. Like a cancer. A very powerful, very deadly kind of cancer."
Kyle-kun suddenly stopped speaking, realizing the scariness of his own words, but it was too late. Miyuki-chan was staring at him in momentary horror.
"I not look sick, ne. Just feel tire. I wonder what it mean, ka?"
"Hmm. I'm not so sure," Kyle-kun replied. "Kids who get it always go bald. They lose all their hair. But you're not going bald."
Miyuki-chan reached up and felt her hair, to see if it was coming out. It wasn't. Not by so much as a single strand.
"Ee-eh," she remarked negatively. "Not bald, ne."
"Then maybe they were wrong, huh?" Kyle-kun said.
"Mm," Miyuki-chan nodded.