San Francisco gynecologist Kate Jamison has spent most of her life taking care of everybody else. Her marriage has been floundering for eons, and she can't seem to feel the parts of herself that she longs to connect to. Emotionally spent and besieged by migraines, she retreats to a remote area on Maui for an overdue vacation. There, on Seal Cove, she encounters a gateway to a foreign landscape that mirrors her deepest fears. Desperate to heal, she surrenders to a shape-shifting shaman who she fears is potentially dangerous, and encounters the non-ordinary worlds that challenge her deepest...

How does a classy, middle-aged New York City therapist-with a history as grim as any of her clients'-jump into the fires of her soul? She can't. Not alone, anyway. The Goddess of 5th Avenue is at once witty and heartbreaking, entertaining and inspirational, as it celebrates life's beauty-music, poetry, the divine-and explores its darkness-sexual abuse, betrayal, and the grittiness of New York street life. Author Carol Simone uses her remarkable gifts to temper this story of childhood trauma with a healthy dose of ironic humor, and she shows us that magic and mysticism lie just beyond the veil...