Red Hot & Holy: A Heretic's Love Story by Sera Beak

When one person dares to speak her truth, it gives us all permission to live our own. Through riveting personal narrative and illuminating self-help suggestions, author Sera Beak offers us a startlingly intimate and provocative view of what it means to fall madly in love with the divine as a modern woman, inspiring us all to live our own spiritual love affair, out loud and on purpose.

With a rare combination of audacious wit, critical insight, radical transparency and tender vulnerability-masterfully mixed with red wine, rock songs, tattoos, and sex, as well as academic research, psychological theory, and mythology-Sera candidly chronicles the highs and lows of her mystical journey in a refreshingly contemporary style.

From the innocence of her childhood crush on God; through a whirlwind of torrid liaisons and bitter break-ups with Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sufism, and the New Age; and finally into committed monogamy with a Red Hot and Holy Goddess-Sera reveals the perils and ecstasies of what it takes to discover one's true Self.

Sera Beak's luscious writing and renegade spiritual wisdom made her debut book The Red Book (Jossey-Bass, 2006) a breakout success. Now, with Red Hot and Holy, she brings readers a far more personal book-a raucous, uncomfortable, hilarious, and above all utterly honest portrait of the heart-wrenching process of mystical realization and human embodiment.