If you read my book review of the author's first book 'Desert Journey' then you will know just how much I loved it. In fact I just could not wait to read the follow up and was certainly not disappointed and had an extremely hard job to put the book down. Although I don't think it could come close to the experience of reading the first book, to be fair I don't think any book could !!

A year ago, on a horse trek around Spiritual Mountain Jerry was gently guided by the hands of fate to an encounter with a wise old Indian named Tom unbeknownst to Jerry, Tom is his spiritual friend from many past lives and his spiritual mentor on his life's journey, they have shared many lifetimes together and made an agreement a long time ago to find each other to help reach their fullest potential.

In this book, Jerry returns a year later to the beauty of Spiritual Mountain for further guidance from his spiritual friend, Tom. Jerry's quest is still to find true happiness and his true self, but he is also battling against his relationship demons after yet another relationship has failed. He looks to Tom for answers as to why after so much learning the previous year he can still get things so wrong. Tom's reply is that everything is perfect as it should be, which makes no sense at all to Jerry. After some time Jerry realises that he had let the learning slip and had forgotten many important lessons which he would need to restart once again.

The story focuses on finding the answers to why he feels so much anger and abandonment at leaving Jenna and why he is faced night after night with the recurring dream of John Lee, a young boy who's father left him and his mother to go to war. The dreams continue to show John Lee working on the farm to look after his mother, a tragic accident for the plough horse, the death of his weak mother and finally trying to find his father during wartime. I could have read a lot more about John Lee's life but it would have ended up being a very big book to read.

A couple of messages stood out for me while I was so engrossed in the story. The first was that when something happens to you you can spend all your time thinking of yourself as a victim and how awful it is or you can ask yourself what am I meant to learn from this experience. Don't let feelings take control, its all about the perspective of a situation. The other was that in relationships love is important but like and respect is much more important. If you do not know why you liked that person in the first place then when love ends what reason do you have to stay.

I love the way the author writes the story to include life messages of self help. I could actually sit and read about Tom's spiritual guidance and lessons all the time, I would obviously prefer to sit on the edge of the mountain with him overlooking the beauty of the valley below but will have to make do reading from a book.

A highly recommended book to everyone who enjoys to read and I cannot wait for the author's next return to his spiritual guide. ( )