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Bond #3
A Mystical Embrace
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Geneva, an emergency room doctor, and Y, an NHL hockey player who has a wife and children back home in Sweden, are the central characters in the three-book Bond Series. They have a scintillating love affair which consequently produces a child, Krystian, who becomes their precious bond. Honour, integrity and the fear of becoming celebrity-fodder for the media takes Y home to his family, leaving Geneva to be a single-parent.
This stunning saga beautifully unfolds the lives of a cast of unforgettable characters from Canada (including First Nations), Sweden, Africa and Ireland who break your heart yet can piece it back together again.
The books take on many of the ambivalent and contradictory dimensions of the human experience, dealing with poignant subjects such as: enduring love, death, dying, mental illness, betrayal, grief, adoption, true friendship and the devastating disease – ALS.
Yet, throughout, there is an underlying flow of an unpredictable grace which is filled with compassion and understanding – an infusion of springtime into the winters of bleakness.
The human encounters are so intimate that they can unravel every texture of one’s being and even, at times, illuminate the heart.
There was a constant spill-over of pure affection between Geneva and Y. The spirit of which was an affinity that held their kinship warm even through adversity and many years of separation. The space between them becomes a latent field for the growth of endless possibilities.
In the third book of the series, A Mystical Embrace subtitled Our Rekindled Bond, a possibility blossoms.
Geneva, an emergency room doctor, and Y, an NHL hockey player who has a wife and children back home in Sweden, are the central characters in the three-book Bond Series. They have a scintillating love affair which consequently produces a child, Krystian, who becomes their precious bond. Honour, integrity and the fear of becoming celebrity-fodder for the media takes Y home to his family, leaving Geneva to be a single-parent.
This stunning saga beautifully unfolds the lives of a cast of unforgettable characters from Canada (including First Nations), Sweden, Africa and Ireland who break your heart yet can piece it back together again.
The books take on many of the ambivalent and contradictory dimensions of the human experience, dealing with poignant subjects such as: enduring love, death, dying, mental illness, betrayal, grief, adoption, true friendship and the devastating disease – ALS.
Yet, throughout, there is an underlying flow of an unpredictable grace which is filled with compassion and understanding – an infusion of springtime into the winters of bleakness.
The human encounters are so intimate that they can unravel every texture of one’s being and even, at times, illuminate the heart.
There was a constant spill-over of pure affection between Geneva and Y. The spirit of which was an affinity that held their kinship warm even through adversity and many years of separation. The space between them becomes a latent field for the growth of endless possibilities.
In the third book of the series, A Mystical Embrace subtitled Our Rekindled Bond, a possibility blossoms.
176 pages, Paperback
First published May 25, 2018
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About the author
Marlene F. Cheng
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I ran barefoot on the Canadian prairies in the dust that settled after the 2nd World War. That makes me an octogenarian, an oldie.
Thrust from the infinity of wheat fields into the warp of the Rockies, Selkirk and Purcell mountains, the light that defined a frightful, but interesting, high school life challenged me.
Our neighbors were all Italian, migrants to Canadian mining towns. With his Welsh-born farmers’ busyness, my father found strange their art of dolce far niente that is, the sweetness of doing nothing. They practiced it, “Come in. Come in. Sit down. Taste my homemade vino.” My father adapted.
And the flames of railway trestles burning and women parading nude colored life. Doukhobors (a sect that had fled persecution in Russia) settled in the Kootenays. They protested having to send their children to public schools.
Wearing a babushka and twirling spaghetti, not only did I survive those years, but I thrived.
Vancouver, the “big city,” where I discovered traffic lights and city buses, claimed me for medical lab training, and I worked the night shift in the blood bank to put myself through university.
I’ve worked in cancer research, taught at tech schools, become a registered massage therapist, taken up energy schooling in NY., married and raised two kids, and, at 73, published my first book A Many Layered Skirt, a biography about a young Chinese girl trying to keep one frightening step ahead of the soldiers, during the Japanese occupation.
My husband, of 56 years, was Chinese. Our mixed marriage was intriguing, and happiness was ours. Interests in people, cultures and places took us around the world. Many of those adventures find their way into my writing. He passed away, throwing my life into chaos. Now, I’ve picked up the pen, again. I have four books in the Love is Forever Series. Temptation and Surrender: A Secret Love Child Romance Novel; The Fallen Sniper Tears: A Sniper Romance Novel; A Mystical Embrace: A Mystical Romance Novel and The Madam's Friend: A Novel about Flawed, Textured, Vulnerable Soulmates.
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I ran barefoot on the Canadian prairies in the dust that settled after the 2nd World War. That makes me an octogenarian, an oldie.
Thrust from the infinity of wheat fields into the warp of the Rockies, Selkirk and Purcell mountains, the light that defined a frightful, but interesting, high school life challenged me.
Our neighbors were all Italian, migrants to Canadian mining towns. With his Welsh-born farmers’ busyness, my father found strange their art of dolce far niente that is, the sweetness of doing nothing. They practiced it, “Come in. Come in. Sit down. Taste my homemade vino.” My father adapted.
And the flames of railway trestles burning and women parading nude colored life. Doukhobors (a sect that had fled persecution in Russia) settled in the Kootenays. They protested having to send their children to public schools.
Wearing a babushka and twirling spaghetti, not only did I survive those years, but I thrived.
Vancouver, the “big city,” where I discovered traffic lights and city buses, claimed me for medical lab training, and I worked the night shift in the blood bank to put myself through university.
I’ve worked in cancer research, taught at tech schools, become a registered massage therapist, taken up energy schooling in NY., married and raised two kids, and, at 73, published my first book A Many Layered Skirt, a biography about a young Chinese girl trying to keep one frightening step ahead of the soldiers, during the Japanese occupation.
My husband, of 56 years, was Chinese. Our mixed marriage was intriguing, and happiness was ours. Interests in people, cultures and places took us around the world. Many of those adventures find their way into my writing. He passed away, throwing my life into chaos. Now, I’ve picked up the pen, again. I have four books in the Love is Forever Series. Temptation and Surrender: A Secret Love Child Romance Novel; The Fallen Sniper Tears: A Sniper Romance Novel; A Mystical Embrace: A Mystical Romance Novel and The Madam's Friend: A Novel about Flawed, Textured, Vulnerable Soulmates.
https://marlenecheng.com
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November 26, 2021
The third book in the Love is Forever series continues the story of the families of Geneva and Y, interlinked through Krys/Raven, their love child.
While we see Geneva, her sister Venice and brother-in-law Cloud, as well as Geneva’s daughter-in-law Shelly, with who she makes an emotional journey to Hawaii, the main focus of the narrative is on Y’s wife Karin. Her relationships with their daughters Ellie and Triannna are seen, as well as that with her own mother and with Geneva, with whom Karin takes a trip to Ireland when her health takes a turn for the worse. Secrets are revealed, a voyage of discovery is made back to Ireland, where further links are made and the family extended once more.
Author Marlene Cheng skilfully switches perspective between the multiple family members to tie off certain strands of the story and leave the reader ready to whatever the fourth episode brings.
While we see Geneva, her sister Venice and brother-in-law Cloud, as well as Geneva’s daughter-in-law Shelly, with who she makes an emotional journey to Hawaii, the main focus of the narrative is on Y’s wife Karin. Her relationships with their daughters Ellie and Triannna are seen, as well as that with her own mother and with Geneva, with whom Karin takes a trip to Ireland when her health takes a turn for the worse. Secrets are revealed, a voyage of discovery is made back to Ireland, where further links are made and the family extended once more.
Author Marlene Cheng skilfully switches perspective between the multiple family members to tie off certain strands of the story and leave the reader ready to whatever the fourth episode brings.
June 16, 2021
Wow, heart wrenching.
A Mystical Embrace is Emma and Y, their affair and the child they have. In this story the human encounters are so intimate that they can unravel every texture of one’s being and even, at times, illuminate the heart.
Sad and great at the same time. Well written with well-crafted characters.
A Mystical Embrace is Emma and Y, their affair and the child they have. In this story the human encounters are so intimate that they can unravel every texture of one’s being and even, at times, illuminate the heart.
Sad and great at the same time. Well written with well-crafted characters.
July 5, 2019
A well-written book. It is a pleasure to read this advanced reader's copy of this book and voluntarily review it.
September 3, 2022
Definitely a good book, and necessary if you have read the others in the series. I was saddened when Raven was killed in action, I am recently widowed , I found strength in the way his family handled their grief. This book left me with a tear but also a smile on my face. It is well written. I bought the book , now save it to share with good friends. I am looking forward to Ms. Cheng’s next book. E G
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