The young women’s bond of love, humor, pride, and perseverance, carries them through ordinary and extraordinary losses and triumphs, and ultimately to their destiny in the United States. Based on a true story, Defiance and Redemption, A Lifetime of Unbroken Bonds, takes the reader through three decades in the life of a vivacious, loving, but conflicted multigenerational family in 20th century Ecuador. They will buck social convention and national borders to claim the right to live as they choose. The two sisters, along with their close friend, Marta, yearn for freedom and self-determination. Yet it will be a hard lesson for the young women to learn for they will be challenged by love, passion, scandal, loss of fortune, before they create a daring new world. His advice is to hold on to equanimity to avoid being pulled by the twists and turns of fate. At other times, you are faced with overwhelming challenges which take you to the depths of despair. Sometimes everything is going your way and you feel the dizzying heights of joy. The young women’s bond of love, and perseverance, carries them through ordinary and extraordinary losses, triumphs, and ultimately to their destiny in the United States.Įva and Victoria’s grandfather, Colonel Alisio, tells them that life is like a roller coaster ride. Marta, loyal to the childhood bond with the Alisio sisters, brings humor and support to their twists and turns of fortune.

Victoria finds herself in the center of a multigenerational conflict as her benefactor bestows a great inheritance on her excluding the rightful heirs. Eva, a proud and strong-willed young woman defies her family, society, and culture, faces scandal and disgrace, for her forbidden love affair. The sisters are raised by their atheist Grandfather Marcus and religious Grandmother Maria Luisa. Based on a true story, Defiance and Redemption, A Lifetime of Unbroken Bonds, brings to life the joys, dramas, and triumphs of two sisters, Eva and Victoria Alisio and their loyal friend Marta.

Scandal's Redemption by Pamela Gibson