title: Abducted and Lost
author: Diana E Linn
description: Diana Linn was born to an American Father and a Mother born in Siberia before the Russian Revolution. Her parents met in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the end of the great depression. After earning her college degree from Fresno Pacific in Fresno, California 1963, she married Dr. Robert Linn in 1972. Diana and her husband, an Ordained minister with the Christian and Missionary Alliance. have lived in the Western Coastal States due to ministry obligations.
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  The Abducted Heiress
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Claire Thornton
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Scanned and proofed by Bils
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Version 1.0
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prologue
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Stockholm_ _, Sweden_ _, 1653_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘What’s wrong, Father? Is it bad news?’
  
  
  Jakob asked. Instead of replying, James Balston continued to stare at the
  
  
  letter in his hand.
  
  
  
  
  
  Jakob’s sense of unease grew stronger. His
  
  
  mother also noticed her husband’s unusual reaction to the letter. Margareta
  
  
  lowered her embroidery to her lap and waited for James to speak, a crease of
  
  
  worry between her eyes.
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘Andrew is dead,’ said James. It was a measure
  
  
  of his shock that he spoke in English.
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘ _Förldt_?’ Margareta looked at Jakob
  
  
  in confusion. Despite the fact that she and James had been married for
  eighteen
  
  
  years, she still spoke very little English. ‘ _Vad_ _ sade han_?’
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘Andrew _är_ _ dod_,’ Jakob
  
  
  automatically repeated his father’s words in Swedish.
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘ _Ah nej_!’
  
  
  The colour drained from his mother’s face.