thor, and mentor, Dr. Linda Sandel Pettit has written a memoir, a compelling tale of an intuitive intelligence that guides us through life -- mystical, magical, and practical.

Leaning into Curves is, first, a love story. It is a poignant tale of forbidden love between a 24-year-old woman and a Catholic missionary priest twice her age; of two souls who crossed the boundaries of religious beliefs and dogma to honor their hearts.

It is a tale of crushing loss when a tragic car accident on Christmas Eve ends their earthly relationship. It is tale of one woman's trust in the spiritual wisdom unfolding from her soul to guide her through suffering and death to a new love. It is an otherworldly tale of a chance meeting with a Hawaiian Kahuna who forecasts that she will soon be handed the mystical keys to love by a "teacher of THOUGHT."

It is one woman's search for the sacred feminine, divine female power. It is a candid, insightful and lyrical story of transformation that explores:

• judgment and forgiveness;
• separation, and connection;
• desire and surrender,
• mystery and miracles,
• intuition and synchronicity,
• faith and love.

The author, trained as a counseling psychologist, uses her personal life story to point readers toward universal truth.

This is story of hope that our journeys through life can be sure-footed when we listen from and follow the way of the heart, the beingness of love. It is a life raft.