About Katarina’s Dark Shadow by MJ Krause-Chivers
Katarina wanted to leave the Land of the Mennonites and become a missionary school teacher. But the Great war was on and travel wasn’t permitted. Then an accident with a horse wakens her to sinister elements in Ukraine. The Russian Revolution is beginning to burn. Katarina must choose. Does she accept the warning signs and flee with the others to an unknown destiny or take her chances with the familiar? There’s a bigger problem here. Mennonites don’t do war and her faith is getting in the way.
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Author Bio:
MJ Krause-Chivers is the fiction pen name for award-winning non-fiction Christian author, Miranda J. Chivers. (Readers’ Favorite 2018, Author Academy Awards 2019, Top Shelf 2019). With a life defined by trauma and triumph, this author tackles bold, life-defining and controversial topics that others avoid. In non-fiction, she writes about faith, family and mental health with the goal of sharing stories that heal hearts.
Her fiction writing focuses on her Russian Mennonite roots. After visiting Poland and Ukraine in 2014, she began exploring her ancestral story. This riches to rags story about the cultural genocide of the Mennonites in southern Ukraine and a family’s refugee experience during the Russian Revolution is based on true stories from her family history.
When she’s not writing, she’s reading historical fiction or memoirs while traveling and exploring cultural history around the world. She loves novel cuisine, hiking in the woods, and collecting rocks. MJ lives in Niagara, Canada.