Innocence Derailed

My sisters, do you remember your first time? The exquisite tenderness, or the shameful anguish? The right or wrongness of it?
• Fifteen-year-old Kate gives her virginity away in glorious romantic innocence. She maps out a perfect life for herself – until the rose-colored glasses have to come off and grown-up trials engulf her. After questioning everything she’s learned about God and love, Kate contemplates suicide on a foggy cliff one night but then chooses to ride the 1970 hippie currents of free love and rebellion instead.
• While the guys in her class are drafted into the violence of the Vietnam War, she too flees her country for grand adventures from Mexico to Canada. On this turbulent path of self-discovery, she’s pursued by mystical words that drop into her conscience. When Kate faces her destiny, she must choose to settle down in her hometown or find the courage to follow Spirit where it leads.
• This emotional page-turner explores the hurt and wonder of first love and the raw and real experiences of becoming a woman. Innocence Derailed is a stand-alone novel, the first in the Spirit Quest Series, and gives the early background to the author's narrative non-fiction awarding-winning book, The Celestial Proposal.