The Sicilian Journals

Derived from this oversensitive male author#xE2;#xAC;"s oppressed life comes a tale uniquely seasoned to the contemporary woman#xE2;#xAC;"s experience, molded poetically in rhythms of fantasy. Set to the tone of a modern woman#xE2;#xAC;"s life, highly competent at the height of her achievements, Allie remains unfulfilled. She discovers a girl#xE2;#xAC;"s childhood dreams are not so happily ever after; her marriage, her career, and material success bitter atop unresolved oppressed passions. Deeper heartsong desires of both goddess and girl grow to bursting from within, never acknowledged by herself or even her most liberated peers: reckless loving, furious passion, unquenched romantic ideals. Allie finds opportunity that feels final in a crossroads of her life: a choice to finally listen to her own deep self, or continue following external expectations of a #xE2;#xAC;Sgood woman#xE2;#xAC;. In a sudden fit of courage and chance, she embarks on an unexpected adventure. It will ravage her life#xE2;#xAC;"s false foundations at their core to shake loose and liberate her feminine humanity, so long unacknowledged in its truth and beauty. On the island of Sicily, a dark heart stirs and coils around her, constricting a beautiful, yet painful adventure to enliven her own heart. As she writhes a hidden strength awakens, at its source someone she#xE2;#xAC;"d forgotten long ago: herself, uninhibited and unbound. Masculinity surrounds her with paternal and loving characters, their understanding and lovingness giving unprecedented embrace through the birthing of her own self. For a woman who found no match in challenges perhaps was waiting for the only challenge that mattered: the most precarious and scary one, that with her own heart. Yet its rewards are far greater, unimaginable before crossing treacherous heartlands to unite with what had been missing her whole life.