title: Riding the Dragon: The Power of Committed Relationship
author:  Rhea Powers 
description: ...the authors have forged a remarkably fresh insight into the dynamics of personal relationships. -- <i>NAPRA ReView</i><br /><br />A radically fresh, challenging and inspired path into vastly expanded personal and mutual development attainable through a committed relationship. This book leaves conventional ideas about relationship far behind. It illuminates unconscious dynamics behind everyday couple conflicts and gives practical techniques to achieve deep mature harmony with a glimpse into the transcendent aspects of couple experience. -- <i>W. Brugh Joy M.D., Author of Joy's Way, and Avalanche</i><br /><br />A wise, bold, honest map through the maze of intimate relationship. Rhea and Gawain are delightful mirrors, reflecting hope, courage and inspiration for all lovers. -- <i>Gabrielle Roth, Author of Maps to Ecstasy: Teachings of an Urban Shaman</i><br /><br />An exceptional and insightful book that offers ground breaking insights on the most difficult of life's challenges -- fostering deep and meaningful relationships. -- <i>Beth S. Jarman, Ph.D., Author of Breakpoint and Beyond</i><br /><br />Fresh words, full of insight and understanding. These are soothing and radical and workable insights into making it better, much better, between two people who care. -- <i>The Book Reader</i><br /><br />Riding The Dragon is at once a spiritual and practical journey through the uncharted waters of relationship. To navigate these waters to a horizon of self-awareness Rhea and Gawain have offered themselves as guides so that we may discover the potential of our most intimate relationships as mirrors to our inner worlds and spiritual lives. -- <i>Sally Fisher, Author of Life Mastery</i>
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  What happens when fire meets earth?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Benedict and everything he’s been working towards are in danger. He hates the
  thought of having a bodyguard, but his son Rhea doesn’t give him a choice in
  the matter. Benedict supposes he should be grateful that the man chosen to
  keep him safe is a friend of both Rhea and Rhea’s soulmate, but things are
  awkward, especially when Benedict and Dakota have to fake being in a
  relationship.
  
  
  Dakota will do everything he has to in order to protect Benedict from Purity,
  the group that wants element wielders to stay separate. Rhea is the soulmate
  of one of Dakota’s best friends, which makes all of them family of a kind.
  Dakota doesn’t mind faking being in love with Benedict, mostly because he
  suspects it would be too easy for that to become reality.
  
  
  When they’re attacked and the elements they control twine together rather than
  fight, they realize they’re mates. That won’t stop Purity, though. If
  anything, it will make the cult eve