Mya meets Elin or Love meets Light

Mya meets Elin or Love meets Light is a spiritually inspired novel for young people aged 14 and up. Kate Rouse wanted to share ideas from her previous book, A Spiritual Handbook for the Modern Era, in a readable and memorable form which would appeal to a younger audience.

Mya is a 14-year-old girl who is experiencing bullying at school. She meets Elin, a lovely, wise woman, in the forest near her home. Elin becomes Mya's mentor as their friendship grows through frequent rendezvous. Elin teaches Mya about coping with difficulties and becoming spiritually aware. Different chapters represent various themes as each conversation becomes a lesson on topics such as nature and the world as it is.

Many young people may feel worhless and pessimistic at times. They may experieince anxiety about their own lives and the current world situation. Mya meets Elin or Love meets Light, has been written to give them some hope when, at times, things may only seem bleak. The book is here to amplify love and light.

The eldest of four sisters, Kate Rouse, grew up in Albury and on a small farm at Table Top, New South Wales, Australia. She had a happy childhood with freedom to explore nature and enjoy life with horses that were a huge part of her life then as they still are today. After completing a BA and Dip Ed at the University of New England, Armidale, Kate worked at Mt Hotham and Mt Buffalo in various roles and travelled extensively throughout the world for 12 years, interspersed with teaching English in Japan and casual teaching in New South Wales and Victoria. She self-published two travelogues in the 1990's. During the following 12 years Kate worked as a teacher, Aborigial Education Worker, youth worker, pool manager, factory hand and receptionist. She travelled in Australia with her partner, Shayne, completed Certificate IV in Community Welfare, a Diploma of Counselling and a Fine Arts Certificate. At Christmas, 2010, Kate was struck down with pneumonia and during this time she contemplated her mortality. Slowly recuperating while house-sitting in Queensland, Kate began to think about what she would write in a book if her life was coming to its finality when the idea of, "A Spiritual Handbook for the Modern Era, " emerged in 2012. Kate wanted to help others who were experiencing trouble or confusion and provide some clarity with relevance to the sometimes complicated and often demanding era we find ourselves in today. Kate published the book with Zeus Publications in 2013 and again in 2019 under her company name, Zephyr Publications. House-sitting in 2014, and again unwell, Kate decided to write a novel for young readers incorporating thoughts from, "A Spiritual Handbook for the Modern Era." Sitting beside a fire in a frigid mansion she wrote the manuscript titled, "Mya meets Elin or Love meets Light." Kate wanted to make the ideas in the previous book readable and memorable for readers aged 14 and up. Kate and Shayne now live in Queensland where they are establishing a small horse stud. Living with Chronic Fatigue and its many challenges, Kate still writes and paints. She has experienced life broadly, felt life deeply and studied spirituality from an early age. Kate and Shayne share their lives with Teuco, a talkative blue parrot, Whispit and Sox, mischievous tabby cats and 12 beautiful horses.