Watercolors

Meg Robbins was raped by her boss when she was nineteen years old. Instead of fighting against the trauma, she was drawn into a life of stable success with her college sweetheart, Ted. Life with Ted meant safety from being hurt again, but she had to lose her dreams to do so. In her middle years, Meg felt a growing dissatisfaction with the status quo and an increasing desire to return to her love of art and discover her own sexuality.

This book follows Meg as she explores her life and herself. She learns that she must choose between the life of safety that she has created with Ted and her growing knowledge that she is bigger than that life.

Along the way, she falls in love with a younger man outside her marriage and also discovers a mentor for her art and her personal journey. In the end, she must decide between safety and risk in order to create a life that is meaningful for her. If she doesn't find her way, she will slide into a stale, unsatisfying existence. If she makes the wrong decision, she will either melt into the ordinary, ruin everything she and Ted worked for, or find her true self.

-- Kari Louise Hansen