Mariposa: Living the American Dream, While Surviving the American Nightmare.

A woman reinvents herself after a long and painful breakup, trading an old life for a new one. She finds a home on an Italian island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. Thousands of miles away, and against all the odds a scorned ex can throw at her, she lives a life everyone envies - hiking old villages and ancient beaches; touring the Rivieras, taking lovers, buying a home of her own, and exploring every foreign place she stumbles upon. But she has a secret backstory not many know of or understand, and the old life still haunts her: in sleep through terror dreams, and by day as a real-life nightmare unfolds involving a man gone missing, a con artist, and a beloved brother who saves her life from inside prison walls. Read about Mariposa's adventures, and how she rises to every expat challenge including finding a casa of her own, learning a new language, and forging new friendships. All to emerge from the cocoon that held her in; all to realize life outside of the realities that brought her to the water's edge, but couldn't push her over.