Nina Temple had counted on having plenty of time - decades of time - to mendthe rift with her older sister. She'd put it off, and now the chance wasgone.
In the wake of her sister Erika's violent death, Nina leaves herhome and family and crosses the country to sift through the remnants of alife. She uncovers a past she doesn't recognize, an ancestry scarred byjudgment and secrets. Enduring shock after shock, plagued by dreams, Ninacomes unmoored from her sensible, orderly world and does unthinkable things.Is it possible that her sister's consciousness lingers in the home where shedied? And can Nina escape the pattern of generations and step into her ownpower?
Like so many of us, Nina receives a summons from the Great Below -the darkness, the other, the hidden parts of the self. Her inner journeymirrors the Sumerian Descent of Inanna, that ancient, mythic venture intothe underworld to make the connection between conscious and unconscious thatopens the way for wisdom. Like Inanna, Nina is stripped of her defenses,lost, and then reborn through compassion into a larger self.