KIRKUS INDIE BOOK REVIEW An engaging mystery with mystical overtones that also offers a wide-ranging discourse on New Age philosophy and entrenched belief systems. Dr. Lance Stavros is a 47-year-old, disaffected doctor ready to commit suicide when he gets a mysterious invitation to become the personal physician of an enigmatic spiritual teacher-a man known as "Hadden," who holds court inside a mysterious compound, Hawk's Landing, on the outskirts of Patra, Greece. Almost immediately falling under the mystic's thrall, Lance forgoes his self-destructive tendencies and becomes deeply entwined in...

Marley Cover has lived in Lake Wales, Florida, since she was five.

While the country heads into the Vietnam War, a small town anxiety overtakes her, as she desperately searches for the man of her dreams.

Marley focuses on her career as a physical therapist and meets her first patient, Peter Rensen, son of a local ranch owner, who doesn't wait long to propose marriage. Peter adores her and he's a good man, but sparks are not flying for Marley. Longing for a family of her own, she eventually relents and says "I do." She has every reason to say yes and only one to say no.

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