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Hope Friis leads a normal life for any teenager living in Berkeley, California in the 1960s: she hangs out with friends, spends time with her family, and dreams of winning a singing competition and college scholarship despite her pronounced stutter. It seems like she has everything under control, until she takes part in the Free Speech Movement that engulfs the city—a choice that could crush her chance of competing.Feeling trapped, she is visited by the mysterious Serakh, a woman from another time who desperately needs Hope’s help. By using her grandmother’s magical prayer shawl, Hope travels with Serakh to eleventh-century Paris where she has only nine days to solve a mystery that could have deadly consequences. To save the life of an innocent child, Hope must overcome her fears and discover the one thing she can’t find: her voice.In her companion novel to Blue Thread, award-winning author Ruth Tenzer Feldman weaves past and present together to create a one-of-a-kind story of friendship, family, strength, and survival.

In this companion novel following the Oregon Book Award-winning Blue Thread, Ruth Tenzer Feldman once again weaves a tale full of history, culture, and fantasy. Hope Friis has struggled with a severe stutter her entire life. As the 1960s Free Speech Movement gains ground in her hometown of Berkeley, California, Hope embarks on a journey back in time—guided by her time-traveling ancestor, Serakh—to the city of Paris, circa 1099 A.D. Her mission: to save the newborn son of the young woman, Dolcette, and find the courage to become a young woman of strength and conviction.