After 10 years working at Boston University and six years in a relationship with her boyfriend, Ted, Brigitte Nicholson loses both at the same time. Definitely not a chance- or risk-taker, Brigitte has declined any advancement because she has been comfortable in her life, even though it isn't exciting. Now she is replaced by a computer system at the university.
With no job in sight, she has agreed to help her mother with research on a genealogy project for her family and investigate the Marquise de Margerac. Her research at the Salt Lake City Mormon Family History Library uncovers the surprise events of a beautiful Sioux Indian girl, Wachiwi, wife to Marquis Tristan de Margerac. Total fascination with this spirited and courageous relative, who Brigitte seems to favor, takes her to France where she uncovers the mystery and puzzle of Wachiwi's existence. Brigitte's fascination becomes her obsession as she encounters some help along the way that could change her safe, secure existence to an exciting adventure.
I became completely enthralled with the exciting and courageous life of Wachiwi and her dangerous trek from America to France to end up becoming the wife of the Marquis. The history of this beautiful girl is a wonderful story full of strength, unlimited courage and risk. If this doesn't keep you glued to the page, nothing will. I hated to see the last page to this terrific story.
Β This compelling, centuries-spanning novel brilliantly
interweaves the lives of two womenβa writer working in the
heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on
an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result
is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown.
At the age of thirty-eight, Brigitte Nicholson has a job she
likes, a man she loves, and a book on the womenβs suffrage
movement that she will finishβsomeday. Someday is Brigitteβs
watchword. Someday she and Ted, a rising star in the field
of archaeology, will clarify their relationship. Someday she
will have children. Someday she will stop playing it so
safe. Then, on a snowy day in Boston, Brigitteβs life is
jolted. Suddenly everything she counted on has changed and
she finds herself questioning every choice she has made
along the way.
As she struggles to regain her balance and plot a new
course, Brigitte agrees to help her mother on a family
genealogy project. In Salt Lake City at the Family History
Library, she makes a stunning discoveryβreaching back to the
French aristocracy. How did Brigitteβs mysterious ancestor
Wachiwi, a Dakota Sioux, travel from the Great Plains to the
French court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinetteβand into the
arms of a French marquis? How did she come to marry into
Brigitteβs family? What is the truth behind the tantalizing
clues in the fragmented, centuries-old records?Β Following
the threads of Wachiwiβs life, Brigitte travels to South
Dakota, then on to Paris, irresistibly drawn to this brave
young woman who lived so long ago. And as she comes closer
to solving the puzzle of Wachiwiβs journey, her previously
safe, quiet life becomes an adventure of its own. A chance
meeting with a writer of historical fiction, a new
opportunity, and a difficult choice put Brigitte at last in
the forefront of her own story. With a complex and powerful
family legacy coming to life around her, someday is no
longer in the future. Instead, in Danielle Steelβs
mesmerizing new novel, someday is now.Β
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