Sketches from the Heart of a Texas Artist - The Sketchbook, is a short story about an artist in search of self-actualization. Mona Lamar is a jewelry designer and Dallas Design District gallery owner, whose passion and lustful vulnerability grows with so much fervor that she is pulled by the forces of nature to overcome her fears in pursuit of self actualization. Mona accepts her Hero's Journey with passion and doesn't look back. As she's chased by her dark shadow of despair, she hijacks a boat, sails through the Caribbean, falls in love, becomes entranced by an enchanted priestess, and...