Even at the start of drafting A Pilgrim’s Heart, I knew—Nordun’s journey will not end in Lhasa; her story is far from over.
I had intended to write only The Horse Master’s Daughter, a tale as a gift to Nordun, my Tibetan niece. But somehow Nordun ended up with Karma, her budding love and the special gift of hearing his mother’s call… now how could I ignore that?! To me it was obvious, Nordun would help Karma in his search for his Mongolian mother, and more travel and adventures were already spinning in my mind as I wrote A Pilgrim’s Heart.
After Lhasa, the next stop would be Mongolia, at least so I thought it would be. Researching the journey from Tibet into Mongolia along the Silk Road at the times of the Yuan dynasty, when Tibet and China were part of the Mongolian empire under Qubi
