Heathen Hearts — Jack Kunst

Torkel "Mac" Macleod is a work weary cowboy living in South Western Alberta. Now that the kids have grown and left home, life for Mac and his wife Elfrida has become a repetitive routine of work and sleep followed by more work. Life has them in a grind and it appears nothing can change it. Then the phone calls from their children start. Next come strange old videos on Youtube. Finally the email arrives that ties everything together. Thirty years earlier, before Mac met his wife Elf, he had another life, one that has been suppressed and driven from his memory. Against the better judgement of his family who are somehow implicit in his case of amnesia, Mac sets off to Europe to meet Anja Lindstrom, Gitte Kozak, Deedee Hanlan, and others who will help him recover those lost, not days or weeks...but years. Using travel and Deedee's photographs, Anja with Gitte's help, will guide Mac through those lost years and to his missing memories. Anja though is not quite as she appears nor is Gitte. There is a matter of some unfinished business that these women are not telling Mac about. Something involving a certain, "White Witch of Linden Wood" and her relationship with an ancient curse placed by a Dark Sorcerer. But even he are not who he seems From the foothills of Alberta, to the forests of Sweden, Mac will seek the truth. From the Hortobagy Puszta to the cobblestone streets of Belfast the pages of his history will once again be legible. But that is not all. Anja will lead Mac through disturbing memories of decadent Los Angeles and the dangers of the Sonoran Desert. Through these returning memories Mac will come face to face with the joys, the fears and the tragic consequences of the life he once lived. It will be up to him to take up the torch in order to finish what was left off so long before. The only difference... it will be with the help of his extended family. Now that the clock is ticking again, there will be so little time to prepare and do what needs to be done. Will the Fates favor them this time or will they only hinder. For Mac, Elf, Anja, Gitte and their children, the answers lie within their Heathen Hearts.