A psychologist in crisis leaves her established practice in the city for an open-ended retreat in the mountains at the Institute for Healing and Transformation. Feeling lost, betrayed, and stricken by guilt not to have saved her daughter from sexual abuse, she hopes to find a new path to ease her pain and uncertainties.
Soon after her arrival, a "wild" man who roamed the forest with a bear is brought to the institute. When the man is given to her care, she performs a suspenseful balancing as she seeks to heal him as well as herself.
Hiking and meditating each day, she initiates an inner journey that shakes her free from the familiar. As the months pass, she engages her guilt and sorrow, confronts her failures, weighs the limits of therapy and self-forgiveness, and seeks to unleash the healing powers of the unconscious and of love.
Readers will find this an absorbing and dramatic novel of abuse, resilience, and the quest for transformation.
The Orpheus Trilogy by Tad Crawford probes the life dramas of people bound together by their struggles with loss, grief, guilt, forgiveness, love, and the search for healing. A Woman in the Wild is Book 2 of the trilogy. Book 1 is The Cave of Forever, which will be published in May 2027. The final novel is Book 3, The Mysterious Velocity of Love, which is scheduled for publication in May 2029.
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- ISBN: 9781648211133
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