Arlene Marie Muller's Destiny Trilogy continues in Taming Maddie: Destiny II. Every decision and every experience in the lives of Joanna, Kay, and Maddie has led them to each other. Maddie enters puberty with raw emotions heighten by nightmares in which she revisits the fears and pain of her past. Kay must answer the question why if she is ever to be trusted again. She is not the same person she used to be, and does not know why she hurt the people she loved the most. She wants forgiveness, but must forgive herself first. Joanna cannot control Maddie's dreams, but in Maddie's waking hours,...

BOOK THREE OF DESTINY TRILOGY Arlene Marie Muller continues the journeys of Joanna, Kay, and Maddie in Kay Rising: Destiny III. From the age of sixteen, Kay's private life had been on public display. Everything she did, including who she did, was public knowledge. Her love affairs with men and women, her drug abuse, and her disrespect for authority and outrageous teenage rebellions had all been fodder for the media. At the time, she thought any publicity was good publicity, and actively sought the attention of the media. She had it all, beauty, success and money before she was old enough to...

Kate Walker stared at a five by seven inch photograph mounted in a shiny silver frame, which sat prominently on her desk. It was a picture of four young girls with their arms around each other's shoulders, and their broad smiles aimed at the camera as they stood beside Mickey Mouse at Disneyland. Whenever she was having a bad day, she stared at the photo, because it never failed to make her smile. The photo was from the summer of 1986, when she was eight, and all arms and legs with front teeth the size of butter beans. Her three friends hardly resembled the sophisticated women they were...