This is story about life and the build up to a unique set of circumstances. Part one of the book will have you questioning the probability of unforeseen consequences. Is it chance or fate that determines our destinies?

This is a story about death, one of the few things that we are all going to have in common. Part two of the book will have you thinking about the value of life and the legacies we leave behind.

There is a message, or a moral if you wish, to this story. It's pertinent whichever religion you follow, or if you have no god in your life.

Does Mary really take a voyage on the Ship of Souls? Or is it all just her imagination?

Christopher Jackson-Ash is in his late fifties and lives in Melbourne Australia. He has had a varied career in chemical engineering and risk management. Now that his children are grown up, he has returned to bohemia and is concentrating on his first love, writing. His main focus is on his FirstWorld multiverse inspired by Michael Moorcock and J.R.R. Tolkien. His work extends through flash fiction and short stories to novels in other genres, including children's stories.

He works with his alter-ego, Kris the Bard. Kris writes ...

I was born in Karo on FirstWorld and grew up to be a cook before I was kidnapped by pirates and unwillingly forced into the service of the evil wizard Weylyn the Wolf. After many adventures I became Bard of Elannort and eventually ended up in this dimension of the multiverse.