Fate’s Far Winds

Description

The carefully orchestrated and compartmentalized life of brilliant, elusive Dr. Sasha Borodin––prolific but unheralded inventor, physician, and virtuosic musician, has been thrown into disarray. Regrets come too late about having a second child, at 64, this time with his much younger wife––fellow musician and formidable bodyguard Katya Zhang Kaplan at the same time he is to become a grandfather, and over his rash decision to retire from the medical boat that has been his and Katya’s only home. A peaceful pre-babies trip to Japan with his Vietnamese older son Khai, his wife and two former crewmen, now captains of their own medical boats, turns deadly when an obsessed collector sends thieves and assassins to steal Sasha’s beloved Stradivarius violin, a fellow survivor of the Holocaust with a history as unknown as his. Sasha finds himself drawn away from his beloved Katya by obsessions and secrets of his own after the disastrous birth of his new son, Gavi. Sasha is tempted when his newest development catches the world’s imagination: The siren call of fame that he has evaded his entire life might lead him to the fulfillment of his dreams, or into madness.

Her love and loyalty pushed to the limit, Katya must reexamine her own life and decide who she will become, with or without Sasha. Blown by the winds of Fate, Sasha and Katya travel the world as they seek peace from the violence of their pasts and their way back to each other.