Merit is a German guest at her former Ameri-can student exchange partner Jenny’s who is now married to a Marine. Her husband Jerry has just returned home and they are throwing a party at the house to welcome him and his friends back. When the party is in full swing, Merit meets Jer-ry’s brother-in-arms Alex who goes under her skin at once. Sparks fly but Merit is shy and care-ful and then Alex seems to lose interest and dis-appears from the house altogether. Merit ventures out into the darkness to find the man who has affected her like no other ever has. Will she work up the courage to tell him how she really feels? Tirza Schaefer is a whirlwind of creativity and passion who shares her house with her children, her cat, a lot of books, crystals and oracle cards. She recently googled the definition of boredom - a concept alien to her, as there are always exciting thoughts spinning those wheels in her mind. Her favourite office is her patio where she sits for hours, (weather permitting) and types, thinks, meditates or entertains family and friends to her heart's content. And when she has the time, she takes off to visit the UK, her favourite place there, Middle Earth with a garden that has the Narnia lamp post in it. True story!     And she writes. Lots! Books in different genres, blogs on Goddesses, Power Animals or Tarot Meditations, or whatever she feels like writing on. There are always lots of romantic or other stories and spiritual wisdom to be found in her complex mind. Some make it on paper. When she is in creative flow, she writes like a woman possessed. She doesn't like to cook too much unless she can listen to an audiobook or have a conversation at the same time and add lots of chilli to her vegetarian or vegan dishes and she bakes one hell of a yummy chocolate cake. When she falls in love with a new Netflix series, she has been known to binge-watch that throughout a night on occasion, too, cuddling up on the couch with the cat and a cosy blanket. She also loves to laugh. A lot. Preferably with the people she loves, most of all, her children. With her first book published, which has by now been incorporated into "My Spirit Song" (spiritual poetry), she has fulfilled a life-long dream she'd had since childhood of becoming a published author. By now she has way over twenty books published already.   She runs a creative group, a spiritual advertising and a romance advertising group on Facebook and is slowly getting really good at the techy side of being a public figure, too.  Most of all, she's real.