Savitri L. Bess

When writer Anne Demaree moves from New Mexico to a bungalow by the sea in Southwest Harbor, Maine, she hasn't a clue what is in store for her. After a life-altering experience at a Kali Temple in India, Anne is determined to get her life on track and so she prays to Kali.

However, Anne neglects to take into account that you do not ask for Kali’s help without accepting the consequences. Kali is, after all, the Goddess of Transformation.

A mysterious old woman bearing no resemblance to Kali, shows up while Anne is hiking on a mossy trail in Acadia National Park. The woman tells Anne she must follow her, because Anne is running out of time. Is the old woman real? Anne suspects the old woman is a forest being, kind of like you might find in Ireland.

Whoever she is, the old woman keeps showing up in the most unusual places and times, with all manner of tricks to help pry open Anne's closed mind, even going so far as to call upon a few Indian goddesses. Bizarre sights to see amidst firs and birches while cross-country skiiing on a Carriage Road or rowing to a nearby island on the icy Atlantic.

To complicate her life even further, Anne has found a tender love interest in Adam Waterfield, a retired philosophy professor and Cranberry Island native. A crisis with Adam’s drug-troubled grandson soon finds Anne at dead-center of the turmoil.