The first book took Valerie through a demoralizing divorce, hate crimes, her mother’s Alzheimer’s disease and being condemned by her daughter. Valerie kept her eyes on the future. She entered the university at the age of forty-four to study Comparative Religions and fell in love with Uriah Wexler, from Israel, her professor in Christian Ethics. She set out to educate against hatred and misunderstanding amongst the three major monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity and Islam. This is Val’s story from devastation, to a career on the lecture circuit teaching tolerance and acceptance and finding the deep abiding love she thought would never be hers.

This second book fills in the gaps and tells the rest of Val’s story from beginning to end. Also included in this book are four short stories I hope you enjoy.