Megan Wane is caught in a life of dull dreariness. She goes to work in a dead end job with a boss she can’t stand, and comes home to a silent apartment with only a standoffish cat for company. She can only get away through her imagination. And there, in her thoughts, there exists a fairy-tale kingdom with wizards and dragons. A place called Prosperity, where she is both a princess and a hero. On this day, both Megan’s external reality and her interior world will suffer tragedy that will turn her life upsidedown and shake her to the foundation. Can Megan turn disaster into deliverance?

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Killing me Softly…Megan’s a Winner - Megan’s an intelligent and inventive soul unsuitably stuck in an uninventive, uninspired, stalled-out, 9-to-5 existence. Perfecting the creative mind’s survival tool, Megan moves dreamily and effortlessly from her stifling, grey world of artificial light, cubicles, drone-like co-workers and a manager who apparently is missing a sensitivity chip, to the land of, “Prosperity,” where Megan is creative, free, full of humor, empowered, in control, a hero. The world of Prosperity holds unique surprises: The sunrise vs. moonrise scenerio is a colorful image that serves up just the right mix for Megan’s personal sanctuary as well as employing allegory between a grey, hopeless life and an inspired, hope-filled life. Prosperity provides Megan the power to save Hope, her best friend, and the inner hope she must keep for herself. While taking in Megan’s story, I found myself reflecting more than once on eerily similar moments, musings and sinking spells deep down in my bohemian blood. “Strumming my pain with his fingers and singing my life with his words…” - Rebecca Kanzlemar Smith @ Amazon.com

Megan in all of us - Much in the tradition of CS Lewis, Mr. Southard has created a true allegory on everyman. All the hidden fears we share, the masks we show others, and the hero or heroine in all of us that is waiting to burst out if we can only find the courage to believe in ourselves.

We can all see something of ourselves in Megan, and I believe she has something important to teach us. What that might be, I believe, is up to the individual reader to discover. - James McRay @ Amazon.com

Fairy Tales for the 30 something - First of all, Megan is not for the young reader (under the age of 15) because of the language alone. But for everyone else, this little gem is something to behold.

The story is an odd mixture (in a good way) of fantasy and reality. The two states juxtapose quite nicely with Megan, the heroine, stuck in the middle. The author’s language is crisp, clean, expressive and easy to follow. The real world reeks of the mundane 9-5 cog in the machine type of atmosphere, while the fantasy world is one part Tolkien, one part “Office Space.” The characters are both real and quite absurd at times and everything is rather brilliant in how the story is pieced together. My favorite character was “Hope.” She just spoke so truthfully and honestly that I could immediately see her in my mind. It was quite refreshing.

I highly recommend this book for light summer reading or as a spiritual rejuvenation when you feel like life has give you a crap sandwich and you don’t feel like you’re going anywhere. Four Stars. - Jacob F. Keller @ Amazon.com

Excellent story, everyone will see themselves in this book , be it in work, marriage/ relationship or life in general…we are all there! - Nora Pompa @ Amazon.com

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