Emma's Remembrances

Before the Beginning

By: Mary McKenna Mayles

Narrated by: Jessica Threet, Christopher Boucher

It is December 1851. Teenage Elise Herbert and her family have come to Strasbourg, France, for a more prosperous life. Her mother Magdalena, father Georges, and siblings Nora, Charles, and Frank are there. Though Elise misses the countryside of Prussia, life is happy in Strasbourg. It is a crossroads city filled with wonder and adventure.

Then Elise meets the young handsome Alois Meunier. They fall in love, marry, and begin their lives together, full of happiness, joy, and the beginnings of their little family.

The coming of war brings change to Strasbourg, the Herberts, and all of Europe.

And Alois holds a secret that, if it catches up to him, would destroy them both. A secret that leads to another secret that would destroy Elise and her family.

Can Alois outrun his past? What if Elise were to find out the truth?

©2018 Mary McKenna Mayles (P)2019 Mary McKenna Mayles