This book of love is not about the fairytales. It is a book about Love's fragility, it's fatefulness and fleeting nature.

This collection is a tribute to the raw feelings we endure, in happiness and in despair, in hope and in fear, in strength and in struggle that take over our senses when we experience one or more of Love's many layers.

It is through these seasons of life, the light and the dark, that Love presents itself.

For embedded in Love's many forms - romantic love, familial love, friendship, loss, compassion and self-love - we find sources of own our truth.

This journey is neither direct nor straightforward. The order of the works included in this collection reflect this reality.

May you always have the courage to speak your truth, and love without reservation.