The Stain

You’ve felt it many times, that eerie feeling of “I’ve been here, I’ve done this before.” Or you meet someone and feel you know them instantly, as though you have journeyed across the planet and back with them, already.
One protagonist in The Stain, Diana, relates these feelings to the distant past, a past she lived...or rather a past that was lived by someone very much like her. Are these memories hers?
For Mary from London England in the 1890’s life requires nothing more than the presence of her one true love; unfortunately he is neither true, nor loving.
And Tahni experiences the cause of Diana’s sense of familiarity but it takes Diana a commitment to a profound form of meditation, the Chod or graveyard meditation, to release the source of suffering for all three of them, the cause of The Stain.

Near Lake Eire in the 17 century, Tahni weds Chief Takoda in a glorious meadow that
exactly matches the beautiful meadow of her night dreams. She lives a life of happiness until Takoda does not return. Tahni’s breaking heart leaves her vulnerable to the medicine man, Chaytan, who uses his powers to connect his life with hers, beyond time.
In London England in the 1890’s Mary stands wretched in a corner of the asylum rocking an invisible baby, yearning to get to the meadow she sees just beyond this world. A single visitor claims her, taking her from the institution. Who is the strange man? Can she truly heal from her heartache, betrayal and loss?
Contemporary middle-aged Diana weaves the tale of her life, including the rape she endured as a young girl, the madness that followed and her trail of meditation and travel that led to healing. Her listener, the mysterious, attractive Jake awakens feelings she had thought she’d never have again. Can she trust her heart and her life to his hands?
Three women, their lives bound by a single, horrifying event, replay madness, betrayal, loss and brutality until one of them finds a way to clear them all from the karmic suffering of The Stain.