Kaa'Sa'Nee (Dreams Woman) is sitting on a rock ledge in the afternoon shade, overlooking the Escalante River Canyon, playing a sad floating piece of flute music. Aha' Tae (big cat) is lazing by her side purring like a kitten. She is thinking about the dreams that are getting stronger and stronger about the Lo' Hon (Running Man). The loneliness and desolation of the canyons has been a heavy burden for her to bear lately. She wonders if her father's wish that she tend the Life's Spring Water until his return is really the Way. After so many seasons there is a lot of doubt in her mind. Kaa'Sa'Nee sighs with a deep longing for what she does not know but still desires. Douglas Allen Waters is letting his mind slip more and more into a dream world. He does not even realize that soon so many of those dreams would turn into reality bringing him the most wonderful love a man could experience. With this love would also come a tremendous amount of pain and anguish? Would he be able to keep his sanity through it all? Gracie Edwards is just marking time in the little town of Escalante. She knows she is waiting for something to happen to start her on the road she will follow in life. In this summer before her senior year she is about to be thrust on that road. Gracie is very impatient to begin her journey. Kaa'Sa'Nee's, Douglas Allen's, and Gracie Edwards' lives will be entwined with each other more than they or anyone else will ever imagine. Love, life and family is the way. And the living water is always there. This story will carry you through each character's experience of first love.

To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) offers a collection of 30 essays from leading experts in the gifted community. The essays provide an overview and resource for anyone who works with or cares for the gifted, from gifted adults and teens to parents of gifted children, educators, counselors or medical professionals. Some of the topics include:

parenting gifted children living with the intensity that often accompanies giftedness counseling and educating gifted individuals giftedness in diverse communities and special needs populations the role of teachers and other professionals in the lives of the gifted first-person essays describing the challenges and joys of giftedness in children and adults

Contributors to this collection include Angela Arenivar, Rose Blackett, Dina Brulles, Marc Caplan, Lori Comallie-Caplan, Christine Fonseca, Rosina M. Gallagher, Jean Goerss, Judith Wynn Halsted, Jane Hesslein, Holly Hughes, Joseph Hughes, Tiombe-Bisa Kendrick, Carolyn Kottmeyer, Marianne Kuzujanakis, Sharon Lind, Linda Neumann, Vidisha Patel, Steven Pfeiffer, Sheri Plybon, Michael Postma, Amy Price, Helen Prince, Carol Raymond, Sylvia Rimm, Lisa Rivero, Patricia Schuler, Beverly Shaklee, Michael Shaughnessy, Wenda Sheard, Jeremy Tardy and James T. Webb.

In "The Mystery at Seymour Lake Lodge," Jan Whitlock, an investigative reporter from Connecticut, arrives in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom for a few days of relaxation after her husband Sid demands a divorce. The innkeepers, her friends Ida and Philippe Renault ask for her help in solving a mystery plaguing the lodge and its guests. Odd things are happening-lights going on and off at unusual times, food and personal items missing and strange noises at night. Some of the guests could be suspect. As events become scarier and more complicated by a cold case murder, Jan tries to sort things out. Realizing that she can't solve this alone, she seeks help from an attractive wildlife photographer, an Abenaki Shaman, and Jesus, the Good Shepherd. Questions arise regarding spirituality, danger to the environment in the Nulhegan Basin, and Jan's ability to listen to her own inner voice and maintain her courage.