In this, his third novel, Dr. Milton endeavors to make the titles possessed by all womenMaiden, Mother, Cronediscernible. His story concerns a triad of tensile lives, a trinity of goddesses dipped from the same hot, whorled gene pool but forged by distinctly different environments. The result is a cautionary tale replete with psychological, sociological and mystical insights related to child abuse, cancer and clairvoyance.
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