Dragan was a Yugoslav peasant who flirted with the ideals of Communism and aspired to become a teacher. Instead, he became a slave in a German labour camp. Galina was an only child growing up in the harsh reality of Stalinist Russia. She survived the siege of Leningrad only to be exiled and enslaved in her turn. Chance is the true story of two ordinary people who lived in extraordinary times. Displaced by war and the vagaries of politics, Dragan and Galina met and married in the chaos that followed the conflict. For them, survival was not a question of heroes and victims but simply a matter of chance.

Anne Metikosh was born in Montreal and raised in Toronto. After living in the cities of Halifax and Yellowknife she made her home in Calgary, Alberta, where she still lives with her family. The author of numerous articles and short stories, Metikosh has published a young adult fiction titled Terra Incognita, and had her writing featured in the anthologies, The Little Iron Horse and Chicken Soup for the Parent’s Soul. Her parttime job as a Sales Tax Administrator gives her time to do what she really loves, ride horses, read mystery novels, and write.

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