“I’ll never know what possessed my mother to steal my father’s lion’s that night.”

So begins Destiny’s Consent, in which Angelica Grastende, an old gypsy crone, pokes and prods at the recollections tucked away within her heart, to retrace her life and its meanderings, which have returned to her a fragmented soul. She is no longer gypsy, no longer gadje…yet a little of both, a little of neither.

Her actions take her upon the grand adventure that has been her life. Angelica is a natural born seeker, who through a great misfortune at an early age, becomes alienated from her roots. The Gypsy’s Song deals with the early years of what is to be a life-long odyssey.

In a grand series of events, she becomes by turns lost, found, defeated, and finally, exalted. Along the way, she finds a series of mentors and a few bona fide wizards as well as a few scoundrels to help direct or misdirect her as she hurtles pell-mell through her life in search of a destiny.

It is a story of a woman living through some of the most important events of our time – World War I, the Great Flu Epidemic, the fight for women’s Suffrage, Prohibition, the rise of Hollywood, the birth of aviation, and the creation of California with its unique characters and eras.

The four books, which comprise Destiny’s Consent, are a mythical roadmap for those who become lost during the pursuit of their own lives.