Publisher's Synopsis
Highly competent at the height of her achievements, Allie remains unfulfilled. She discovers a girl's childhood dreams are not so "happily ever after"; her marriage, her career, and material success bitter atop unresolved dreams. Deeper desires grow to bursting, never acknowledged by herself or even her most liberated peers: reckless love & untamed adventure. Allie finds opportunity that feels like a crossroads: a choice to finally listen to her own deep self, or continue following external expectations of what a "good woman" is. In a sudden fit of courage and chance, she embarks on an unexpected adventure. It will challenge her life's false foundations to liberate her impassioned femininity, so long unacknowledged for its true beauty. Upon reaching the island of Sicily, a dark stirring claims her into a beautiful yet painful enlivening of her own heart. Paternal understanding and lovingness embraces a birthing of her own self. For a woman who found no challenges she couldn't overcome perhaps was waiting for the only challenge that mattered: the most precarious and scary one, that with her own heart. In her struggle a hidden strength awakens, finding at its source someone long forgotten: herself, uninhibited and unbound. Yet the rewards are far greater than imaginable before crossing treacherous heartlands to unite with what had been missing her whole life.
