Eclipse Of A Woman (Women Of Change) / Women Of Change (ePub)

Growing up as a foster child of the city is one truth Milioni is striving to leave far behind her only taking the phone number of Peeda her best girlfriend for keeps. We watch her ascend into adult life finding all the things she needs to make it in work and older friends willing to steer her in the right direction. This soothes her progress until she latches onto the notion of a 'good' man taking care of her for the rest of her life. Here we find Mil searching for the right one, the right guy to fall in love with whose only ambition is to be happy together. Dean, a city cab driver, fits the bill and when she loses financial security at her job, he comes to her rescue leaving her just as she's planned, safe.

At first glance, we learn of a young woman's empowerment through friendships and later we watch her enclose herself within that masculine safety net she was searching for. However, distrust and deceit arise as she learns of her girl friend's deep seeded mental health and envy, another's problems having children of divorce and dating, and her fantasy of genuine family life forces her to tighten the grip she wants on Dean as his live-in girlfriend. Through all of the turmoil, for the first time Mil can relax knowing she has someone else to depend upon.

It all comes into the perfect light as we see her, after some years, finally visit Peeda down south unsure of exactly where life's taking her girl down there dabbling into things she'd avoided back in the city. There she knows for certain she has made good choices for herself, her life. In the end though, not everything's as it seems and sometimes there so much more to family and life only to be discovered in the next chapter.