High Note

Armed with a music scholarship, beautiful and ambitious Viveka Hanson heads to Chicago to begin a professional singing career. Viveka is eager to leave her sheltered home as a minister's daughter, but her dreams of finding love and excitement in the big city are dashed as she is barraged with rejection, betrayal, and a frightening stalker. Viveka's odyssey through the minefield of professional music snakes through the social changes of post World War II America. Will a long-held family secret destroy her very identity?

Edna Mae Holm was born in Wisconsin and grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan. She graduated from Mundelein College in 1947 and began a singing career in Chicago. In 1952 she married Robert Gangwisch. After publishing a mystery novel with her daughter, Jill Wellington, Edna wrote A Candle for Kiri, using her Scandinavian background to create the story. Now eighty-eight years old, Edna lives in a retirement community in Cincinnati, Ohio, and keeps in constant contact with her five children and nine grandchildren.