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Spencer Hill's fondest wish has come true. Or maybe his second fondest wish. The northern Vermont town of Assisi, where Spencer is the Unitarian Universalist minister, has at last established close ties with The Forest, a Pagan community just east of town, and it's mostly due to Spencer's efforts. In fact, he has established an intimate relationship with one Forest Dweller, someone who had originally viewed Spencer with contempt. And he has earned the trust and respect of the community's elders. Certain that his greatest wish will never come true, Spencer tries to ignore it-until the man he has tried to forget shows up on the arm of someone else. For a while Spencer is distracted by a Pagan-inspired festival he's organizing and by the teenaged Kira, who-despite her parents' refusal to accept her-is ""Ralph"" no longer. He hikes through the Green Mountains of Vermont with the Great Pyrenees dog, Klondike, he inherited from his predecessor at Assisi's UU church. But soon he can't avoid the questions. Will Donald stay in Vermont with Jonathan Ehrlich? Will he return to his acting career in Manhattan? Or will his love for Spencer guide him? And the real question: What would any of them give up for love?

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""Whether it's sexuality, gender identity, or religion, author Robin Reardon's impressive body of work exquisitely and profoundly examines an individual's journey of self-discovery. With For Love of Self, the author has crafted another unforgettable, thought-provoking tale."" - Christopher Verleger, Edge Media Network ""Featuring a broad cast of characters, the author makes everyone feel unique... will keep readers engaged and entertained."" - Kirkus Reviews ""To seek and serve God takes all that one has, body as well as spirit, for God made both. But the journey to integrate the body's passions with those of the spirit is rarely easy. Robin Reardon has chronicled with exquisite care the ups and downs, the tragedies and triumphs of the journey of body-and-spirit integration in the lives of her finely detailed characters in Love of God. From it, readers both gay and straight will gain insights about their own journey into God, and find their hearts warmed by her winsome characters and their struggles to incarnate divine love in the embodied realities of their day-to-day lives."" (The Rev. William W. Rich. PhD, Vicar (retired), Trinity Episcopal Church, Copley Square, Boston)

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I am an inveterate observer of human nature, creating stories about all kinds of people, some of whom happen to be gay or transgender or bisexual or intersex-people whose destinies are not determined solely by their sexual orientation or gender identity. I write endings that are realistically hopeful rather than sugary and/or ""happy ever after."" After my first novel (A Secret Edge) was published in 2007, I was thrilled that readers assumed I was a gay man. I took it as a great compliment. One reviewer had looked at my website before publishing his review and saw that I was not a man. His comment: ""I think it's wonderful that a lesbian can write so convincingly about gay males."" I took this as a compliment, as well. Even so, it was at that point that I realized I had to come out as straight.

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