'Wind' is the second instalment of the Pictish Spirit series, continuing an adventure in love and intimacy.' Life for Róisín Clare will never be the same again. Having woken from a deep trance state spent for the most part in hospital, she returns home with her lovers, Adam and Ben, to embark on the challenging journey of service to her close-knit community of Pictish Spirit. It seems that the young and troubled seeker, Finn Eachann, is to be her first initiate. As she begins the mentoring process, Adam's past comes calling. His old friend and lover, Diarmuid Cruise, arrives as winter makes itself at home in the Adelaide Hills. Cursed by an Icelandic shaman whose tutelage he has now abandoned, Diarmuid seeks both repair and closure in his relationship with Adam but finds instead he has been drawn to experience a profound healing in the care of the shining woman and Pictish Spirit priestess, Róisín. 'Wind picks up where Mist left us, poised on the threshold of a deepening experience of connection with those we love and the community context in which we live.
About the Author: Louise M Hewett was born in Camden, New South Wales on April 8, 1966. Her childhood was spent moving from place to place, and attending a total of eleven schools: from Canberra and the suburbs of Sydney in her home state, to Victoria, and Papua New Guinea where she spent two years living near Port Moresby; and in South Australia where she finished school in 1983. She worked for seven years in Adelaide and Melbourne, and then took an eight month working holiday in the UK and Ireland to get back to her roots, searching for a sense of who she was and where she, and her ancestors, had come from. Motherhood arrived in 1993 and brought with it a transformative spiritual crisis, enriching her long held interests in mysticism, women's spirituality, Paganism, and Goddess Feminism. Since then she's been a regular traveller between worlds, nurturing her creative passions as well as her four children, and has finally fulfilled her dreams of attending Art School and of publishing a book. Louise lives on the edge of Strathalbyn in South Australia, with three of her four children among books, crystals, and a growing collection of antlers. "I began to write at the age of 11 and produced a 400 page novel at the age of 14 entitled 'The Neon Gods' (after a lyric from Simon and Garfunkel's 'The Sound of Silence'). At 19 I followed up with another novel called 'Austere Music' and then at 22 with 'Echo', the first story in which the character of Adam Wrenshaw appeared. 'Wildewood' grew out of 'Echo', which morphed into 'That Wild Country' until the idea was laid aside for some ten years or so. In 2011, at the Spring Equinox, I began to write 'Mist', the first book in the Pictish Spirit series which include the titles, 'Mist', 'Wind', 'Flowers' and 'Storm'. In 2016 I fulfilled a long-time dream of self-publishing, the books 'Mist' and 'Wind' finally manifest. Pictish Spirit is an adventure in love and intimacy."