Love, sex, and the search for meaning fuel this riveting novel about a group of young men as they attempt to navigate their way through life and relationships.
The series is a fictional portrait of the spiritual journey. Note: Due to mature subjects, the series is intended for readers 18 and over.
Mark liked to think he embraced the Buddhist concept of impermanence, but he wished it would leave his actual life well enough alone. Instead, everything was about to change.
While visiting his estranged father in Europe, nineteen-year-old Mark meets Jacques, a young Parisian socialite who performs as a drag queen. Conflicted by the undeniable attraction, Mark returns to his home country of Kenya—only to learn from Jacques that their mutual friend, John, has attempted suicide. Accompanying Jacques to England, Mark soon finds himself falling in love.
As John struggles with his manic-depression, Mark and Jacques begin an explosive affair that threatens to engulf them both.
When Mark’s violent temper erupts, he flees to his Native American grandmother in the Plains, where he works with a shaman and discovers things about himself he never knew were possible.
Eventually Mark and Jacques meet up again in London. While their passion is instantly rekindled, Jacques now hesitates to trust his heart. Can people really change?
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Some of you might have read my blog on The Search for Love, Sex, and Self in Relationships, so you're familiar with some of the themes my novel illustrates,
namely:
1) The importance of mindful living,
2) The Tao (Way) is meant to be whole, not just masculine or feminine, and without integration of both forces within and without, we are destructive and incomplete,
3) Relationships can be challenging but fulfilling if we're willing to expand our concept of self,
4) Who are we? What constitutes our identity and our reality? Is it our beliefs? Our genes? Our relationships? Our memories? Our souls? What is our purpose here?
5) Healing and becoming whole could be on everybody's bucket list,
6) Sex can be a spiritual experience, perhaps it was meant to be, and
7) Things aren't always what they seem.
My quest is to help bring as many people as possible to a place of healing - although we each must do our own work, a nudge here or there doesn't hurt. One of the ways we learn is through metaphor or storytelling. Literature can move us; it can help us imagine ourselves anew.
My plan is to have a discussion blog - chapter by chapter - since my goal in writing the series is to help awaken as many people as possible - as well as to share these deeply rich, complex characters - who will haunt me, in any event, if I try to ignore them.
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