Best Selling Books by Ian Hunter

Life has dealt Jessie a handful of trouble. Orphaned and friendless, her aunt Helen has furnished companionship and care for as long as Jessie can remember. But when her aunt inexplicably disappears, events at the New York State care home land an injured Jessie in mortal peril. Her escape is not to freedom. Instead, she is summoned into a foreign world of conflict and upheaval, 250 years in her past. With three strange, prickly new friends and the Onondaga shaman, Nishkamich, Jessie reluctantly accepts a new life in the lakeside village. Nishkamich begins their education, knowing the power that they each possess, and the perils they will face in completing the task he demands of them. In the depths of winter, the four friends embark on a journey, exposed to all the dangers which nature and man can throw at them.

"Founded in Wolverhampton in 1781, Briscoes began trading in New Zealand in 1862. The company supplied everything from picks and shovels for gold miners, iron to construct wharves, dynamite to open tunnels and reclaim land, as well as the crockery, lamps, and cutlery that adorned colonial homes. But Briscoes is much more than just a story of hardware. The red-tiled roofs that adorn thousands of New Zealand homes and businesses are Briscoes Marseilles roofing tiles. And it was Briscoes that supplied and fixed the magnificent pressed-steel ceilings that grace thousands of villas. By the 1980s, Briscoes was struggling. The company had passed through several owners, and after a string of losses, Briscoes future appeared uncertain. It was the 1990 purchase of Briscoes by retail entrepreneur Rod Duke that saw a revival of the old New Zealand company. Re-established as New Zealand's leading supplier of homewares, the company has since expanded tenfold in size, and in the face of a global recession remains one of the consistent success stories of New Zealand industry: something it has been doing for 150 years."--Book jacket.