The Triple Goddess Trilogy: Maiden, Mother, & Crone
The Maiden’s Tale:
June 1977. Ellie Walker is seventeen — lithe, relentless in the pool, every stroke a promise to become the champion she’s trained for. Her world shimmers in turquoise water and late-day golden light, but beneath that glow lies a darker undercurrent. The 1970s hum with rebellion and repression: shag carpets, wood-paneled walls, denim cutoffs, and the soundtrack of a generation still echoing with protest songs, rock anthems, and love ballads.
Ellie’s small, ordered life tilts when she catches her father with her catechism teacher and is shipped off to church camp to keep her quiet. There she meets Freedom, a flower child who shows her a horizon she’s never imagined — that a woman might choose her own life. She also meets Mark, a boy torn between art and his parents’ ambitions. They fall in love in a long, foolish way of first romance — until Ellie discovers she’s pregnant.
The world she’s built splinters: a coach demanding perfection, a father’s betrayal, a boyfriend too weak for the life she needs. With Freedom’s counsel and her mother’s painful awakening, Ellie makes the bravest choice of her life — one that shatters her family’s silence and forces them to reckon with truths long buried.
Ellie returns to the pool for nationals, where her final performance is not just for victory, but for the right to claim her own body, voice, and dream.
Love, Choice & Consequence explores one enduring question: What happens when a woman dares to choose for herself?
For present-day middle-aged unrepentant suburbanite Ellie Walker – Florida-tanned, affluent and most damning of all, comfortable – chaos comes as an uninvited stranger right in the middle of life. When her son Danny suffers a near-fatal drug overdose, she faces a stark choice.
The easy option would be to let rehab take care of business. Keep up appearances. Instead, she plunges into the ritual darkness of shamanic energy healing. It’s about as far removed from the shimmering sunlight of the Florida Gulf as can be imagined.
While Danny recovers at a radical treatment center, The Sanctuary at Sedona, Ellie takes up a challenge issued by the center’s founder. The best way to help Danny, she’s told, is to tend to her own ancestral wounds.
Danny’s anguished cry for help exposes a fault-line of fractured relationships and family ghosts: a teenage pregnancy, a disturbing home life, a lost opportunity for peace. How do you reconcile with the dead? By passing through the veil.
Ellie witnesses her own inter-generational biography being laid bare through the otherwordly visions of sacred ceremony and is thrust on a journey to reconcile with those she didn’t realize she still loves. This is the work of healing a generation.
A moving examination of how the roles of wife, mother, daughter, and lover can be shaped by trauma, The Miracle of My Life: Burden to Blessing will change the way you think about life in suburbia and what lies beneath its manicured veneer.
The Mother’s Tale:
