About the book

Rubies in the Wilderness & Splintered (Flip Book)

What does it mean to spend fifty-two years building a math system without all the numbers? Without the father who made you, without the name that belonged to you, without the language for what you were?

Rubies in the Wilderness is the exterior account: the marriages, the decade of abuse, the near-death, the wilderness years, the DNA test that rewrote everything, and the arrival at fifty-eight to the woman the wilderness was always producing.

Flip the book over and 'Splintered' waits on the other side: the interior account, in the voices of the selves that were present the entire time: the four-year-old burden bearer, the adolescent who held the secrets, the musician who called herself the murderer, the one who paid penitence for thirty-one years, the father who came back to heal the children his daughter had been.

Together they are the whole truth. Two books. One object. Flip one over to find the other half.

Her price is far above rubies. So is yours.

About the author

Books by: Mia Bowman-Mays and Friends

Fiction to faith to self-help, my books open minds without being pushy. Writing is as natural to me as breathing, and every one begs the question: What if?

Mia Bowman-Mays and Friends

Mia Bowman-Mays is a multi-genre author with prolific insight into the world and how we were created to be. This is seen in all of her publications, whether fiction, non-fiction, spiritual-fiction, spiritual non-fiction, or self-help.

Ms. Bowman hopes to be one of many authors who decide to step out and walk in their created purpose. This site is a gathering place for her work and the work of friends who share that calling. Our goal? To lift authors up where they belong and create an Information Army!

Quick Note on our "Tended Reading" Books:

What is a Tended Reading™?

A Tended Reading™ is a single volume where the book and its meditation are woven together as one cloth. It is not a book with a study guide tacked on the end. You read a passage, and then, before you turn to the next, you stop and "tend" what you have just read: an anchor verse, a short meditation, a question, witnesses from the wider family of faith across the centuries, and prompts with room to write in your own hand.

An orchard is not skimmed; it is walked. A Tended Reading™ is a book built to be walked.

The collection

Rubies in the Wilderness & Splintered (Flip Book)