Nothing remains, only the constant change: True love knows no borders! An unbelievable journey around the world.
About this ebook
WEST AUSTRALIA, LATE NOVEMBER 1985. Like a giant frying pan, the sun broils over the megacity of Perth, where Suzanne is modelling for art students at the university, while Christoph, who adores his Suzanne and has no work permit, lays glowing hot bricks in the blazing sun. Just among themselves, their hormones are also boiling until their patience snaps after months of quarrelling with their jealous main tenant Janet. Their new landlady Kelly – big heart, small garden, eight emaciated chickens and a shaggy Austrian who grows marijuana in the outback – is happy to have company and feeds them with her home-baked biscuits. One day, Suzanne learns from a friend that a fortune teller with extraordinary psychic abilities is appearing in Fremantle’s little chapel, to which anyone interested in spirituality is cordially invited. Now the time has come, the two are sitting at the very back of the small chapel and it's their turn.
"I welcome two new guests into our midst today," says the seer, holding Suzanne's hands. "I see your future clearly," she says so loudly that it echoes in the chapel. "Great changes are in store for you. Soon you will live even further south, bear a son and pursue an ancient labour." The seer knew more than either of them, but as she holds Christoph's hands, her arms suddenly tremble. "Oh my God!" she exclaims in horror, "I see dark powers and sinister demons!" A murmur goes through the rows. "In a distant place, you will be put to a severe test," the seer continues, "only God can save your soul, be vigilant and pray!"
Everyone turns round, and although Christoph is determined not to believe in such hoaxes, he suddenly feels like a bad person. Is Christoph possessed by evil spirits? Cold sweat runs down his forehead.
"Chris, you're worrying me!"
"Don't worry, Suzanne, I don't hear any evil voices yet." The event dissolved in the blink of an eye, the two drive to the marketplace with mixed feelings and shovel the fruit and vegetables already sorted out by the farmers into their car boot.
AT THE END OF THE BOOK, YOU WILL FIND CORRESPONDING PHOTOS
About the author
Bernhard Christoph Lichtinger was born into a family of doctors in Stuttgart (southern Germany) on July 21, 1961, the fifth of six sons. The author, family man, craftsman, autodidact, inventor and entrepreneur attended one kindergarten, 10 schools, countless countries and 2 East German prisons. Released to Baden-Württemberg after 341 days of miserable food (on Friday, November 13, 1987), Christoph taught himself computer-aided drawing. He first freelanced for the IBM chip factory and then for the sports car fanatic architect Bernd Frank. After he managed to finance his parents' property, Christoph founded his own residential construction company in 1995, which was hit hard by the global financial crisis 13 years later (2008), whereupon he lost everything except the old villa that belonged to him and his second great love Dorothee. After his divorce, Christoph found his first great love Suzanne on the internet and flew to New Zealand to meet her in August 2015. And yes, it is true love! Six months later, Christoph has a little more time again and begins to write down his story ...
Meanwhile nine years in New Zealand, the last six of which Christoph has spent sleeping, working and cooking in his motorhome, he is also closing his third book at the beginning of 2025 to fly to the opposite side of our globe with his faithful dog Rosie. No longer so far away from his two sons, he wants to write the next chapters of his new stories because when he was released from the East German labour camp, he was abandoned by all evil spirits and since then has only been afraid of overflowing letterboxes.
