Voigt's novel Jackaroo was published five years before On Fortune's Wheel. It is the story of Birle's grandparents, Gwyn, an innkeeper's daughter, and Burl, a servant at the inn. Burl loves and eventually marries Gwyn, and it is Burl and Gwyn who, many years later, teach their granddaughter Birle how to read and write. When they were still young, Gwyn and Burl had served and rescued from a snowstorm the Earl of Sutherland and his young son, Gaderian. It is the elderly Gaderian that Birle learns to know when she meets Orien's grandfather. The most recent addition to this series of loosely connected novels is The Wings of a Falcon. In this adOn Fortune's Wheel 3793 venture story, the hero, Oriel, meets Beryl, the granddaughter of Birle and Orien. By the end of the novel, Beryl has become the wife of the Earl of Sutherland, the role...