The books by Rayne Corbin (a pseudonym) have been republished as new editions with the author's name, Chris Handrahan, under the titles:
Systemic Evolutions, System in Nature and Human Reality
, and
Walking on Stones
.
After quitting her job in surrender to the city, while planning a return to the secluded beachside home of her youth, and in need of time for herself, Sela takes a long-awaited break to the mountains.
Accompanied by Josh, a visiting friend, she attempts to rekindle her lost confidence, all the while injured by an overwhelming sense for her aloneness and discomfort with herself within the natural bewilderment of the mountain setting.
Back in the city, she is retold by her memories the reasons for her rude abandonment and the premeditated choice for inescapably leaving her prior life as an only answer left for her to follow, even with its challenging, unchosen solitude awaiting her embracement as sympathy once she arrives.
Following the clues of her world, she arrives with Josh to the abandoned home and beach of her childhood, left to her to have as a kind, escapist choice to follow if she ever found need of it.
As the summer progresses, and with time retreating around her, she finds a different, embracing escape and a perilous trial welcoming her back home.
Rediscovering the imaginings of her youth, she finds a world far removed from the one which had been requested by invitation she escape before leaving the city, her job and its life behind to return home to her not so isolated beach