The Journey

John Heldt

Northwest Passage #2

Release date: November 3rd 2012

4 Stars

Seattle, 2010. When her entrepreneur husband dies in an accident, Michelle Preston Richardson, 48, finds herself childless and directionless. She yearns for the simpler days of her youth, before she followed her high school sweetheart down a road that led to limitless riches but little fulfillment, and jumps at a chance to reconnect with her past at a class reunion. But when Michelle returns to Unionville, Oregon, and joins three classmates on a spur-of-the-moment tour of an abandoned mansion, she gets more than she asked for. She enters a mysterious room and is thrown back to 1979.Distraught and destitute, Michelle finds a job as a secretary at Unionville High, where she guides her spirited younger self, Shelly Preston, and childhood friends through their tumultuous senior year. Along the way, she meets widowed teacher Robert Land and finds the love and happiness she had always sought. But that happiness is threatened when history intervenes and Michelle must act quickly to save those she loves from deadly fates. Filled with humor and heartbreak, THE JOURNEY gives new meaning to friendship, courage, and commitment as it follows an unfulfilled soul through her second shot at life

For me this book is great and full of adventure. It´s great to get yourself lost in the book as there are plenty of opportunities! Reading feels like living another life again throughput the eyes of the protagonist , a character that is really interesting and also the key to actually being able to feel the story.

It’s like getting another chance to live your life again.

People always say that everyone deserves a second chance. But that means only in friendship and love. Not in live our lifes again. That shows us that we must take risks and opportunitys. For me this is the message of the book and this makes me think about my life.

You only live once, so think twice before you take another step.

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