LADY OF THE WAVES
Aallotar Envisioned at Age 12
LADY OF THE WAVES
Aallotar Envisioned at Age 16
Young teen Aallotar wasn’t always scrappy and didn’t mean to punch out Suvi’s tooth. But what could be expected when her family disappears in the 2004 Pacific Ocean Tsunami, her mysterious Thai host conscripts her to panhandling, she’s cheated by drug runners, and assaulted by boys? Convinced her mom is still alive, she endures everything to continue the search for her. Underneath all that is a gifted linguist, a cross-country ski medalist, and a scientist, but to Aallotar it seems impossible to recover. She becomes a recluse..
Daniel, an impressionable young teen, meets Aallotar in Thailand. Since their encounter, his path to bar mitzvah, high school graduation and college is turned upside down. A truck squashes his best friend. He seeks solace in an earth centered commune and finds his purpose in reclaiming a healthy eco-system.
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He can’t seem to find the right girl; one who finds joy through struggle, like him.
Aallotar, who battles her way to a Finnish university, finds relief from survivor guilt by working on a "tsunami-buster" engineering project. She experiences her first successes with human connections but remains guarded.
Romantic Daniel and wary Aallotar meet again, at age 21, at the Warsaw climate change conference. He doesn’t recognize her. Can she trust him to love her if he discovers her past? Can Aallotar have love and family without losing touch with the project that saved her? Will a traumatized girl fit into Daniel’s solid family?​
The author plans to write more stories with young adults as protagonists dealing with the climate crisis.
LADY OF THE WAVES
Aallotar Envisioned at Age 21
LADY OF THE WAVES
Daniel Envisioned at Age 12
LADY OF THE WAVES
Daniel Envisioned
at Age 21
Climate Action Series
2004 Through 2034
