Tahitian Destiny [Paperback]

Julie Eberhart Painter (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris Corp (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401074448
• ISBN-13: 978-1401074449
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,269,834 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Julie Eberhart Painter, a native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, has seven novels in print. Previously, she worked with nursing homes as a volunteer coordinator and later as a community ombudsman. She spent eighteen years with Hospice of Volusia/Flagler in Port Orange, Florida, and contributed to and edited two of their self-help books.

The World, the Flesh and the Devil, American Castles and Tahitian Destiny are available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Her nonfiction e-book, From the Inside Out, is considered a best seller on the Net. In 2009 and 2010 respectively, Champagne Books published Mortal Coil, Tangled Web and best seller Kill Fee. Paperbacks are available at www.champagnebooks.com and from lulu.com

About Kill Fee. Julie took advantage of her knowledge directing a sanctioned duplicate bridge game to create Kill Fee, a cozy mystery in which her main character inherits fifteen million dollars from her "murdered" uncle.

Julie writes a world travel column for Seniors Today, a senior tabloid. Along with her other six flash fiction stories, "Open Containers" her newest flash fiction story appears on: www.bewilderingstories.com Vol. # 444

Appearing under another name, Julie reviews e-books for a prestigious online romance review site.

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5.0 out of 5 stars TAHITIAN DESTINY a must read!, March 19, 2003

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Bill Coulton (Atlanta, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tahitian Destiny (Paperback)

Imagine the result had grade school classmates James Michener and Margaret Mead teamed up to write a tale about Tahiti. The two Doylestown, Pennsylvania natives would probably have combined their knowledge of mythology, native rites (from both sides of the world), with a story about love, family, denial, and vengeance of Gods and mortals to produce a compelling novel. Nearly sixty years after Michener and Mead became world famous for their exploits in the South Pacific, another native of Bucks County has produced a novel that likely would win praise from James and Margaret.

Julie Eberhart Painter, who attended the same high school as did Michener and Mead, has written a love story that draws upon myth, history, legend, and desire. TAHITIAN DESTINY is about Laura, who grows up in Doylestown, an adopted child who does not learn about her real parents until she's fully grown. What she learns is difficult for her to comprehend because she is the direct descendent of the lovely Kura, a Tahitian princess. It was Kura who defied the gods by falling in love with Captain James Cook's cabin boy, Justin Adams, whose affair resulted in the birth of a daughter, Iaone.

When Laura goes to Tahiti to confirm her real identity and link with her ancestors, she meets an Englishman, Ian, who is a journalist. Ian is on his own search for his ancestors. It is not long before Laura meets her real father, a descendant of the Polynesian navigators. Moreover, upon entering sacred areas of the island, Laura and Kura at times become inseparable.

It is almost willed by the gods that Ian and Laura fall in love, but the gods have their own way of complicating their relationship.

TAHITIAN DESTINY is a captivating read. I highly recommend it.