What if you had to make a choice between love and a moral fight for humanity? Answers Awakening is a 128,476-word novel about Kasarina and Jason, who, driven by their love for each other, ambition and determination, build successful careers in oil and writing, which eventually lead them down different paths testing their love, and teaching them what love can endure to survive. Their childhood romance grew into a Johnny Cash-June Carter love affair that made them believe their love was forever. But like Nicole Redon and McKim Hendricks in Ruth Harris' The Last Romantics, life's full of twist and turns. They quickly learn that the adult world has a way of changing everything starting with Jason's job in Houston and the Organization (a secret, drug-fighting group of rich, powerful men), leaving Kasarina secretly married, alone and pregnant. As Jason struggles with his moral decision to fight the drug war and leave his wife behind, Kasarina struggles with the lost of him while keeping his son and their marriage a secret as her writing career soars and fame and fortune takes its toll. During their ten-year separation, secrets, lies, and deceptions try to destroy their love, but through the people who come into their lives-Walter Chamberlain, Madeline Casoni, Maxell Howard, Ben Frazier, Craig Bravero, Don Stanley, Ron Vicknair, and the Cortez family-they learn that friendship, honesty, and truth are the only ingredients needed for love to remain strong, faithful and forever.