title: A Gypsy's Tapestry
author:  Evelyn Asher 
description: Evelyn Asher's life is filled with pioneer experiences. Currently this flatlander hunkers down in rural North Georgia, has a passion to create resilience that enhances lives, mentors elementary school students and entrepreneurs. Evelyn is working on a collection of portraits of immigrants. She has kayaked on Lake Lanier and cruised the Yangtze River for five days. Evelyn's five children and grandchildren share her passion for the human spirit.Since they live in six different states, they make her wish for wings and a Custom Sailing holiday with Captain Valerie Weingrad whose yacht charters she follows from Flowery Branch, GA to the Grecian Isles.
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  Guy Gavriel Kay  
    
    
  
  
  THE SUMMER TREE  
    
    
  
  
  Book One  
    
    
  
  
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  THE FIONAVAR TAPESTRY  
    
    
    
    
  
  
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  The Summer Tree _is dedicated to the memory of my grandmother,_  
  
  
  _TANIA POLLOCK BIRSTEIN_  
    
    
  
  
  _whose gravestone reads, “Beautiful, Loving, Loved,”_  
  
  
  _and who was all of these things._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Contents
  
  
  [Cover](cover.htm)
  
  
  [Title Page](title.htm)
  
  
  [Dedication](ded.htm)
  
  
  [Map](map.htm)
  
  
  [THE CHARACTERS](the_chara.htm#the_chara)
  
  
  [OVERTURE](fm.htm#fm)
  
  
  [PART I: SILVERCLOAK](pt01.htm#pt01)
  
  
  [Chapter 1](ch01.htm#ch01)
  
  
  [Chapter 2](ch02.htm#ch02)
  
  
  [Chapter 3](ch03.htm#ch03)
  
  
  [PART II: RACHEL’S SONG](pt02.htm#pt02)
  
  
  [Chapter 4](ch04.htm#ch04)
  
  
  [Chapter 5](ch05.htm#ch05)
  
  
  [Chapter 6](ch06.htm#ch06)
  
  
  [Chapter 7](ch07.htm#ch07)
  
  
  [Chapter 8](ch08.htm#ch08)
  
  
  [Chapter 9](ch09.htm#ch09)
  
  
  [PART III: THE CHILDREN OF IVOR](p