After volume 1, Where the Wind Blows, was such a hit in Denmark – an audio streaming bestseller and nominated for the Mofibo Awards 2025 – fans of Jesper Bugge Kold have been eagerly waiting for volume 2 in the series on Johanne and and her family’s emigration to America: Where the Fire Burns is published by People`s today!
1883. IT HAS been four years since Johanne arrived in Nebraska to be reunited with Jens, and much has happened since then. The farm has grown, as have the children and Johanne’s trust in Jens. But unforeseen events cause everything to change in an instant. The farm is in danger, Anton must flee, and a cemetery slowly begins to take shape on their land.
AT THE SAME TIME, the Dane Anders arrives in New Orleans aboard the brig Santa Orelia. He lets chance guide him up the Mississippi on a paddle steamer and around America with Buffalo Bill’s traveling Wild West Show, until the day Anders suddenly finds himself on Johannes’ land in Nebraska in the company of an old Pawnee chief.
