title: Fear No Eagle
author: Riche, Robert
description: "Fear No Eagle" is a romantic love story of literary quality that addresses the matter of a modern woman's ability to surmount the most difficult circumstances of her life, her courage and ultimate triumph in the face of many trials, including abandonment as a child, orphanage institutionalization, molestation by a priest, abuse by a farm family that has taken her in as a servant, her escape to New York, the not inconsiderable struggle to overcome demons of her own, flight from a crazed stalker, and romantic tribulations with an indecisive lover. There are some very funny scenes, as well as brutal moments in this novel. There is a shooting, a killing. There are parts of the novel that are poignant, absolutely guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes. The story moves back and forth in time and to various locations, some by the romantic seaside, some to a life of career advancement and romance in New York, some to the dark origins and abandonment and loneliness of childhood years, all adding up to a complex, inspirational and suspenseful experience that keeps the reader turning pages.