Toward the Double Rainbow: A Hawaiian Travel Tale

By Gabriella West

"I want to be more like the islands themselves: warm, spicy, tolerating storms of rain and wind, beautiful, fertile, changeable, adventurous, enduring."

In this honest and compelling short travel memoir, the author and her partner, Selena, travel to Kauai, Hawaii's garden island, on their first trip as a couple, staying at a New Age-y women's guesthouse. The couple struggle with anger, misunderstandings, and a ghostly presence in the guesthouse that terrifies Selena. Will their trip to Hawaii end up tearing them apart?

West takes us on a colorful, provocative journey of adventure and personal discovery that unlocks truths about the past and ends in a moment of insight about personal relationships.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gabriella West
• Release date: Dec 2, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301284917

Gabriella West

Gabriella West was born in Santa Barbara in 1967. In 1969, her parents moved to Dublin, Ireland, and she grew up in Ireland, studying English and Italian at Trinity College, Dublin. She graduated and left Ireland in 1988.She earned an MA degree in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University in 1995.She has published nine LGBTQ-themed novels: The Leaving, Time of Grace, Elsie Street, The Pull of Yesterday, and A Knight's Tale: Kenilworth. The follow-up, A Knight's Tale: Montargis, was published March 2018. Return to Carlsbad, the last book in the Elsie Street contemporary gay romance trilogy, was released October 2018. The Knight's Return (2022) completes the Knight's Tale series.Gabriella West lives in San Francisco, CA.

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Toward the Double Rainbow

By Gabriella West

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In the summer of 2004 Selena and I were traveling in Kauai, Hawaii’s lush and beautiful garden island. It was my first time in Hawaii and the first long trip we'd taken together as a couple. The initial few days were