title: A Fickle Wind
author:  Elizabeth Bourne 
description: Elizabeth Bourne left England as a young woman and now divides her time between California and Canada. Travel is still an important priority but she also enjoys participating in family life with her two daughters and her grandchildren. The seed to write was planted many years ago but it was not until recently, when Bourne had the uninterrupted time to devote to it, that she decided to fulfill her long-time ambition to be a writer. This is her debut novel.
zlib_text: When the Wind Blows
  
  When the Wind Blows
  When the Wind Blows
  
  When the Wind Blows
  
  Prologue
  FIRST FLIGHT
  “SOMEBODY PLEASE help me! Somebody please! Can anybody hear me?”
  Max’s screams pierced the clear mountain air. Her throat and lungs were beginning to hurt, to
  burn.
  The eleven-year-old girl was running as fast as she could from the hateful, despicable School.
  She was strong, but she was beginning to tire.
  As she ran, her long blond hair flared behind her like a beautiful silk scarf. She was pretty, even
  though there were dark, plum-colored circles under her eyes.
  She knew the men were coming to kill her. She could hear them hurrying through the woods
  behind her.
  She glanced over her right shoulder, painfully twisting her neck. She flashed a mental picture of
  her little brother, Matthew. Where was he?
  The two of them had separated just outside the School, both running and screaming.
  She was afraid Matthew was already dead. Uncle Thomas probably got him. Thomas had
  betrayed them and t