Wings of Destiny

by Catherine Lanigan

The descendent of a founding San Francisco family recounts the story of her grandfather, a man whose greed helped shape West Coast history, including such infamous chapters as white slavery, until his downfall in the great 1906 earthquake. Original.

506 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1999

About the author

Catherine Lanigan is the bestselling author of over thirty published titles in both fiction and non-fiction, including the novelizations of Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, as well as over half a dozen anthologies, including “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living your Dream”, “Chicken Soup for the Writer’s Soul”, “Chocolate for a Woman’s Heart”, Chocolate for a Woman’s Spirit”. Ms. Lanigan’s novels have been translated into over a dozen languages including German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. Ms. Lanigan’s novels are also available on audio-cassette, CD and on electronic format. A prolific writer, she is always writing wonderful stories. She has several titles only available in ebook format on Amazon.com Several of her titles have been chosen for The Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Clubs. Her novel, The Christmas Star, won the Gold Medal Award Top Pick from Romantic Times Magazine for December, 2002, and has also won Book of the Year Romance Gold Award from ForeWord Magazine as well as Book of the Year Romance from Reader’s Preference. In March, 2006 Divine Nudges: Tales of Angelic Intervention and the second in Lanigan’s Angel Watch series of books, was published by HCI, the Chicken Soup for the Soul publisher.

Reviews

[Lissy Peace · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an incredible story. It has so many layers and generations. It follows the migration of the African Americans to the west, the migration of Asians to San Francisco, and the growth of San Francisco as a vibrant bustling city. This multi-cultural story was written way ahead of it's time and is now being re-released because of it's cultural diversity and historical importance.

[Melanie]

Interesting historical fiction about California

[Inese · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some interesting San Francisco history embedded in a "chick-lit" novel.