We all face times during our lives when we feel as if we’re living in an alternate world, as if all the bad things that appear to be happening aren’t really happening. Or so we wish. We place ourselves in predicaments and then finding ourselves blaming everyone else or God for the outcome.In today’s excerpts […]
Category Archives: Rubies-Escaping the Curse – Book Excerpts
Excerpts from the Rubies Saga Books
Rubies – Escaping the Curse-Marty and William
Have you ever made a poor decision and the hoped and prayed the consequences of your actions would just disappear? Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. The heroines of our Rubies book series are also discovering their actions have consequences that will affect their entire lives. Last week we continued the Rubies Saga by exploring […]
Rubies – Escaping the Curse-Marty’s Story Continues
https://youtu.be/XYlY9VW3zTALast week we continued our Rubies Saga by beginning Marty’s story. To recap our book so far, we need to go back to Norway in 1913.Kaja Ericsen disobeys her father and marries musician Gunner Ericsen. After the birth of their children, Gunner abandons Kaja for another woman. Alone and unable to support her two daughters, […]
Rubies – Escaping the Curse – Marty’s Story Begins
The Rubies saga actually begins in present day Duluth in 1991 when Kaja’s granddaughter is seeking psychiatric help for a nervous breakdown. She begins our story by telling Gregg Phillips, her psychiatrist, that she and her entire family are living under a curse which was placed upon her grandmother. Phillips is skeptical of any such […]
Rubies – Escaping the Curse – Another Tragedy for Kaja
Our book excerpt today picks up shortly after our last week’s story ended. If you’ve been following along you know that Kaja recently became a widow and was left penniless by her husband. She is forced to leave the farm she has known as her home for five years and find a new place to […]
Rubies – Escaping the Curse – Kaja’s Story Continues
I’m so glad you’ve decided to tune in for another chapter of Rubies – Escaping the Curse. Last week we found Kaja overwhelmed with her life but that wasn’t the worst thing that happened. Her husband, Hans, died from congestive heart failure and she barely mourned his death. Things took another downward swing when she […]
Rubies – Escaping the Curse – A New Life for Kaja
Last week when we left our heroine she had just lost her son and discovered a new side to the man she had begun to hate. Kaja came from Norway with full intent of returning there for her two daughters she had left behind. When she raped by her employer and became pregnant, she was […]
Rubies – Escaping the Curse – The Death of a Child
Last week you read about the terrible accident in which Kaja’s 18 month old child is burned over her entire body by hot grease. Today we see the outcome of that tragedy and how Kaja’s anger for her husband throws her into heartbreak. She finally sees a side to her husband that she never knew […]
Rubies – Escaping the Curse – Kaja’s Sin
[wpvideo etm8KaEU] Welcome to another installment of Rubies – Escaping the Curse – The Beginning. Our series begins as a young Norwegian girl leaves her home seeking work in America. Kaja’s father cursed her on his deathbed for her disobedience when she married a vagabond musician. Abandoned by her husband and without a means […]
Rubies – Escaping the Curse – Kaja’s Burden
Many of us are faced with difficult family situations during our lifetime. It is how we deal with these problems and the decisions we make that can have a lasting impact on our lives and that of our children. This was particularly true for Kaja Ericsen when she arrived in America to make a new […]