MERGING LIVES is a thought-provoking powerhouse novel that considers reincarnation a dynamic force of nature. Seeing a gifted young African mystic captured and sold into slavery in the 1760's, we experience her passion and pain. But what has she to do with a restless modern day Seattle housewife in love with the Caribbean islands? In Canada 400 years earlier, a Huron Indian maiden finds herself strangely attracted to a reclusive French fur trapper. Can the spirit of all three women somehow be one and the same? Is it possible that the process of giving and receiving love knows no boundaries,...