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| Coming soon to an eReader near you... this first volume six stories from the first forty years of a life without a name. |
Sundown Quiet St. Marie is not her given name, of course. None know her true identity. The ladies birth name is not only her greatest secret, it is virtually her only secret, and yet the inner nature of the woman is as great a mystery as any on earth. It is rumored she is high born, daughter of a foreign family of status and impressive means. No one knows what motivates her, what she takes for herself. Many with wealth offer great sums for her services and are denied while others pass through her life and depart ignorant of the value received. She moves through all levels of humanity searching for those she will bring into her sphere for a day or a week or a month, as equally at ease in the world of the simple and sincere as those who proclaim themselves from pinnacles of fame.
One hardly need say she is a consummate actress, wearing personas as other's wear clothing. Some see her a stunning beauty, a goddess come to earth. To others she will appear almost homely, a shy woman home to an inner fire that if ever released consumes all falsehood in its path. Fools will pursue her as the ultimate conquest only to discover she has been naught but the bait in a trap of their own building; gentler, wiser souls will remember her as an angel of the earth or an agent of God's love. Each guise is tailored to the moment, to be retired when unneeded and never worn for another.
To know her is not without risk, hers is a dangerous medicine. Not all survive the inner landscapes of the soul she delights most in traversing. There is no predicting who will be the focus of her strange calling, man or woman, rich or poor, villain or victim. Only one thing can be said of her with certainty. Each and every life she chooses to touch is changed. Many are healed, others brought to justice from within or without. But none are left unchanged. These are but a few of the stories that might be told of her.
Sundown is the lady we wish and hope and pray all women could be, the warrior that we wish we could be. I have written such a character myself in my unpublished novel (that isn't online even in snippets yet); her name is Starflower, and she comes from a world whose "Adam" and "Eve" never ate the forbidden fruit. -- I think that many of us Light Warriors find, just as Jesus of Nazareth did, that the points we wish to make come easier in stories; tales fly under the enemies' radar straight into our hearers' hearts, if they're made right.
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