Between Will and Surrender: Enter the Between Spiritual Fiction Series: 1

Shes living someone elses lie. Should she remain caged by falsehoods or allow the storm of reality to set her free? Twenty-eight-year-old Marjorie Veil has been conditioned to ignore her own truth to give away her power to subjugate in relationships with others and to settle for the path of least resistance. But she has many surprises in store for there are synchronistic forces at work in her life that if she listens will lead her to her authentic heart and happiness. The seemingly impossible happens in the wilds of the Los Padres National Forest where Marjorie goes on retreat to make sense of her life when she thinks she is going insane. The innocence of the Native American orphan Marjorie befriends as well as more mystery and adventure than she bargained for show her how love can heal in what turns out to be a transformative spiritual quest. Between Will and Surrender book one of the Enter the Between Visionary Fiction series takes the reader on a visionary journey into the wilds of the Los Padres National Forest home of the Esselen one of the smallest Native American populations in California nearly exterminated as a result of the Spanish Missions. Like the fires that blaze through the Los Padres National Forest the mysterious voice in Marjories head burns the frameworks that imprison her transforming them into blackened snags a perfect habitat for the seeds of awareness buried deep inside her to burst into life.2016 Northern California Publishers and Authors Awards first place winner for fiction and California Author Project 2019 Adult Fiction Winner