A Summer Like No Other — Garman Lord

The strangest book you have ever read, perhaps even the strangest book ever written, may be the one you now hold in your hands! In it, an ancient heathen goddess of love and wisdom decides to incarnate into an earthly life in the bodies of four baby girls. Her object? Basically, to overthrow Christianity and reclaim her worldly pre-Christian folk congregation. Sound like a work of fantasy? It isn't. This book's modern plot uses the actual ancient heathen folklore; there is no fantasy in it. Unfortunately, the girls, born with the goddess' brain, but not her mind, will or memories, don't know they are goddesses sent to earth with a purpose. As they grow, the heavens are foiled in one attempt after another to get their mission and message through to them. This book is the story of one of the girls, Frieda Ziegler, the ugly duckling of the litter, who happens by a quirky twist of fate to have been born as the only child of a fundamentalist Christian family, who are determined to raise her up in a nun-like existence as an old maid in order to stay home and take care of them in their old age. Near suicidal in her despair, Frieda feels doomed, until the day when fate finally brings all the girls together, and things begin to get really strange, all within the few weeks of one summer vacation. Needless to say, it's a summer vacation like no other!