After Amelia's custody battles with her parents end when she is 16 & 1/2, it's time to create a life of her own and perhaps a whole new way to live too...an adventure that takes her to her friend Gabrielle's newly-forming community on a mystical Northern California apple farm among modern-day radicals. It's true, Amelia would like to help make the world a better place. And she is interested in whether it's possible to create a new type of civilization while the old one is still around. But really she's come to the Esoterica apple farm because one of the people there happens to be someone she has feelings for. It's never too late to create a happy adulthood for yourself, right? Paradise Found: a tale of community, love, friendship, sexuality, sovereignty, and all the magic in the world. From the award-winning author of the 'Gathering The Dreamcatchers' companion novels LIVING IN SECRET, THE SKIN OF WATER/DEFENDING THE DREAMCATCHERS and ESOTERICA.