Trudy Harvey Tait

This book, a sequel to The Velvet Curtain, continues the story of Esther and Gabby, the two Romanian girls who, in their attempts to escape the Iron Curtain, find themselves enmeshed in its Western counterpart. Esther takes drastic measures to stay clear of the Velvet Curtain while Gabby denies its very existence and calls it, instead, The American Dream. And yet, behind this all-enveloping Curtain, the two girls and their friends, Len and Ron Atwood, discover that God can trurn tragedy into triumph. The story will take unexpected twists and turns as His grace invades, transforms, and redirects the lives of flawed and erring human...

This book concludes the story of Esther, Gabby and their friends. Gabby, thinking to escape the Velvet Curtain by returning to her native Romania, finds that her past follows her there and presents her with a dilemma that not even her most mature friends are able to solve. Esther, meanwhile, watching her sister make what she deems the mistake of a lifetime, has her own struggles with the Curtain. Now confined to a wheelchair, she is determined that a secluded life is her only option. But retirement into herself brings no escape. In the end, both sisters discover their own escape route which brings them to the same...