EBOOK Phoenix

Rising from the ashes The Phoenix, fabled bird of legend, symbolizes the struggles of a young English girl to overcome the tragedies she leaves behind and those yet to come. This is an epic novel in the tradition of Gone With the Wind. The young heroine is a kinder, gentler Scarlett, but with no less steel in her backbone.  After months of anguish following the untimely death of her parents, Alexandra Cooke determines to travel to Tucson, Arizona to persuade her brother and his wife to return with her to England where she believes he should take his rightful place and preserve the family estate.  Planning to rest for a week in San Francisco, she had arranged lodging at a highly recommended boarding house for young women of gentle birth. Several days later, she finds herself jolted from her bed by an earthquake. It is April 18, 1906.  The next three years bring her love and heartbreak as well as sickness and health, but also the most amazing reconstruction of a family she had thought lost to her forever.