. . . is at once a story and a poem -- a novel of love, desire, and surrender told in the intimate language of nature.  A nameless writer meets a nameless animal tracker in an isolated northern wilderness.  She is ethereal, passionate, and obsessed with beauty; he is instinctual, arrogantly physical, and coldly certain of nature's merciless laws of survival.  Neither one admits to loneliness.  She chases him, seeking her soul in her own body's sensual wonder; he avoids her, afraid of his own heart.

This is a poem of raptors, of hot-blooded mammals, of wind and winter, and of hunter and hunted.  It is also a story, unfolded through animal dreams, of an artist's shifting relationship with the world: the longing that wakes her, the humanness that finally empowers her, and the talons and wings and heartbreak that make her real.

Beauty by Mindi Meltz

is the first title published by Hidden Door Press,

located in Mountain Home, North Carolina.

Contact:  info@hiddendoorpress.com

Cover photo and design by John Bedell Photography (johnbedellphotography.com)