Diana, Herself: An Allegory of Awakening

Maybe, once or twice in your life, you've experienced a surge of destiny so strong it made you believe in miracles.

Such bolts from the blue seem to hit when weariness or ill fortune have plowed through the ground of reason, breaking it up so magic can take root. What follows is so perfect that to call it accidental defies belief. Diana Archer is an absolutely--mathematically!--average woman, living an unremarkable life, when destiny reaches her. Without quite knowing how or why, she finds h...