Book excerpt: This is a continuation of The Path Given. Jonna inherits a challenge that she does not feel qualified for. Tragedy places her on a new path into the future. Jonna cannot escape her unwanted reputation as a great peacemaker, a great negotiator, and a heroine to the common people. It is a fact that one cannot evade one’s reputation, good or bad; it is a burden one must accept. Little things lead to bigger things that lead to great things under their own momentum. Jonna tolerates and cajoles a nutty physicist that has some weird ideas, along with a few creative scientists and engineers, giving them an opportunity to create unusual things using spooky physics. Nothing is easy. She questions most of the decision she makes. Her sense of duty and responsibility forces Jonna onto a path going to extraordinary destinations. All things change, usually in unforeseen ways.