Libby smiled. "It's okay to say ovarian cancer. " Roger made a small sound and Libby looked up at him. "Not using the words gives them too much power," she added.

After a long journey, the weary European explorers catch a glimpse of land, far on the horizon. . . . Yet these are not Spaniards, commanded by an Italian sailor named Christopher Columbus. These are Vikings, guided by Leif Eriksson, arriving at American shores almost five hundred years before Columbus' momentous "discovery."