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This 2005 San Diego Book Award finalist, Frozen Tears, written by Mary Ann MacAfee, portrays single mother’s journey amid clash of cultures in Alaskan wilderness, pitting a young woman’s struggle against bigotry, nature’s harsh elements and primitive superstitions.

Frozen Tears by Mary Ann MacAfee shows that love can triumph over life’s most dire challenges and painful losses as a mother restores purpose in her life to fulfill the wish of her young half-Inuit son.

In Frozen Tears, young Kale Leland marries an Alaskan Native bush pilot and is plunged into a world of ancient myths and rituals, contrary to the life she was raised to be in. She forges a bond with a shaman who believes he can turn himself into a wolf. In attempt to execute a promise made to the old shaman, the couple suffers a devastating tragedy that becomes the genesis for her debt of gratitude to wolves. The circumstances surrounding the tragedy also make her a target of a primitive superstition that young widows are contaminates, further fueling her fight for her son’s ethnic identity until she is confronted by “the ultimate ordeal.”

EXCERPT

MacAfee has filled Frozen Tears with wolf lore, legends and examples in an effort to show that magic is inherent in nature. She explores the differences between the common notion of heaven and healing and discovers that “In the end, the Earth takes back all her children,” as said by Kale’s Inuit husband on the night they meet. As both an observation of primitive and contemporary cultures, as well as a story of grief and redemption highlighting the extremes of joy and sorrow, Frozen Tears also seeks to showcase that human lives mimic nature through birth, life and rebirth.

Frozen Tears is available for sale online at Amazon.com, BookSurge.com and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.

About the Author

Mary Ann MacAfee, a former financial executive in entrepreneurial environments, has earned degrees in accounting and finance. After completing a literary fiction writing program at the University of Washington and several UCLA writers’ workshops, her short stories began winning awards. Frozen Tears was a 2005 finalist in the San Diego Book Awards, the same year her short story The Face won first place.

Website: www.maryannmacafee.com

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