Distraction [Paperback]

Although a true story of romance, distraction reads like fiction as Texas-born Satrece finds herself living between Bali and Java, and on the waters of Southeast Asia. For more than seventeen years, Satrece lives boldly as a woman on the road less travelled. She builds a thriving furniture business in the jungle with its daily challenges of cultural differences and language barriers. Satrece's contemporary style and Western elegance would seem to clash with the harsh conditions and simple existence of village life, but friendly curiosity and humor help her absorb the lessons taught by the native people of Indonesia. Having thought her life is fulfilled, she's instead drawn into a romantic, if also troubling entanglement with Ron, a rare man who delights in her offbeat and remote existence. Despite an intoxicating attraction, lasting love seems impossible to reconcile with their careers, past lives, and homes separated by oceans and continents. Will intimacy and desire bring them together, or are they forever fated to be lucky in life but unlucky in love?