Becoming Amber, book one in The Amber Saga series, begins in 1967 post-earthquake Alaska, where a young girl has eloped with her first love to homestead in the wilderness. Bonnie immediately finds that her comfortable middle-class upbringing in Detroit did little to prepare her for living in the bush without phone, electricity, or running water. But she's determined to meet every challenge head on - including the long winter nights and bears! Sadly, nobody told Bonnie about the ghosts her husband brought back from Vietnam. But, as they say, love conquers all. Or does it?

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"Once Bret sold his chopper to buy a Toyota sedan, there was no turning back. He strapped a cargo box on the roof and stowed a cooler in the trunk. I packed flannel shirts and jeans, bags of dried fruit and nuts, cans of beans, tuna, his tools and guns, and my guitar. Our grubstake consisted of his $2500 military savings account and $300 cash from my dad that I kept in a Gucci Horsebit shoulder bag. For the first time in my life, I worried about money. My college allowance had stopped, and the trust fund, scheduled to start in eighteen months, was frozen while my parents' spiteful divorce dragged on."