Essence of Love: The Legend of The Lady in the Mist

In spite of losing her parents in an accident, Skye grew into an extraordinary young woman with her grandfather's love and tutelage. Skye was a petite nymph with long silver blonde hair that flowed down her back in waves and eyes the color of the Mediterranean. With her college semester finished she decided to visit Greece to study the country's myths and legends for a children's book. Enter Luc Alexandros, the island's young Patriarch, a financer and entrepreneur whose looks made women long to be his. He was tall, chiseled with wavy black hair and dark flashing eyes. The burning drive Luc felt wasn't ambition but emptiness. He had wealth and power, but he was lonely. His life was to change when he looked down and through the floating mist swirling around the rocks of the shore, he saw a nymph woman, laughing, running in the mist. Was she real or the myth? The courtship of the worldly Luc and the innocent Skye was tender, full of desire and discovery. Both lives melted together when they became soul mates and lovers only to be separated. In the years to come Luc changed, he became bitter, aggressive, ruthless, with life and business. He couldn't forget Skye, haunted by her day and night. The years that made Luc bitter made Skye a strong, resourceful, self reliant mother and woman. She was now an accomplishment author with her best friends and grandfather always at her side supporting and encouraging her. Skye and grandfather both delighted in raising, loving and teaching Alexis and Angel. A fateful phone call asking Luc to come get his children would merge the paths of the lost lovers. This journey of life will bring tears, joy and laughter we all search and dream of......

Caroline Bonham was born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Growing up as the youngest child, she began riding horses at the age of five. Her passion for horses has never ceased and has influenced all parts of her life. Graduating from college in Virginia at the young age of seventeen, she went to work for her uncle, a well known horseman throughout the country. After remaining with him for five years, the business moved to Orange County, California, where she still resides today. Ms. Bonham has been a hunter/jumper trainer since assuming her uncle’s business when he returned to the Midwest. Never leaving her training business, she returned to school and became a vet technician enabling her to work with the animals she has always cared so much about. Today, Caroline continues her training business. She introduces riders young, and not so young to the joys of riding. She has taken riders from the beginning stages to the show ring. Many of her students are now trainers in their own right. Always an avid reader, Caroline has switched gears and is made herself into an author. Ideas running rampant, she has turned out eight novels whose characters return time and again to influence each other’s lives and delight the reader.