A letter, followed by a phone call, from an aunt she didn't know
existed, beckons Juniper Sutton to a resort in a remote part of
Colorado. Hoping to seek answers to her father's death 22 years
prior, and wanting to escape feeling cornered by a relationship
she doesn't want, Juniper accepts the invitation and leaves
Kansas for the Rocky Mountains.
Upon
arrival in Colorado Springs, Juniper is befriended by two of the
men employed by her aunt at the lodge. Wes Andrews, with his
good looks and sensitivity, draws her with his charm, while
Drake Phillips, more of the mountain man type, leaves her
confused, yet fascinated, by his brash manner.
Aunt Rosalee Sutton's down home acceptance touches Juniper's
heart, even while she is thrust into a new way of thinking and
encounters far-out people and ideas at the Rainbow Majestic
Lodge, a healing and light center.
Having been converted from a successful hunting resort, the
Rainbow Majestic now caters to light workers and is preparing
for its semi-annual wholistic fair as Juniper agrees to set up
and manage the lodge's new gift shop. At the same time, she
absorbs a huge dose of metaphysical philosophy through books and
interaction with various characters in the novel.
From the somewhat promiscuous massage therapist, Clover Wolff,
to the energetic, overzealous handwriting analyst, Taffi
Kincaid, Juniper piles up new friendships that also include the
Goth-leaning eccentric awakener, Starla Streber, and the elderly
couple, Cyril Jorgensen and Celeste Birdwell, the former of whom
is an outspoken writer and teacher of all things spiritual.
Then there is Lance Leachfield, the Majestic's bookkeeper, and
his look-alike wife, Nadine, who works in the kitchen. Their
home-schooled nine-year-old son, Max, is pertinent in showing
Juniper all the secret passageways that lead into the old,
forbidden, burnt section of the lodge, where a ghost is rumored
to haunt the damaged auditorium.
Aunt Rosalee's stepdaughter, Gena Sutton Howard, is Juniper's
first cousin, and sets herself up from the beginning to
challenge Juniper every step of the way. However, Gena's psychic
ability uncovers something she'd rather not know about the young
woman from Kansas, and the lodge's dark secrets begin to
overpower her.
Will Juniper ever discover who really killed her father, and at
what price? Will Wes ever be bold enough to love her, or any
woman, for that matter? Why is it that Gena wants her so badly
to leave? And what about her suppressed feelings toward Drake?
What will happen to the Rainbow Majestic Lodge if Aunt Rosalee
files for bankruptcy?
Read about Electric Mountain Lodge, the inspiration for Rainbow Majesty.
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