The Avery Victoria Spencer Fables Series

The thing about buried trauma is that it doesn't stay buried. A lonely woman's façade as a successful bank president begins to unravel, revealing an old trauma that has ripped memories out of her life. It's called dissociative amnesia. Avery Victoria Spencer's forgotten past is about to force its way into the façade of her successful life. Avery's unrelenting need to spend more than she earns sets her up for a very public swan dive into bankruptcy. Financial wizard and president of Waukesha's Prairieville Bank, she is used to high praise from raving clients--and its contentious companion, overt jealousy, (in the person of neighbor and local society columnist, Millie St. James). Why can she take care of everyone's financial problems, except her own? As despair overwhelms her and bankruptcy looms--and a myserious Englishman arrives in Wuakesah and quietly opens a shop that caters to Avery's extravagant taste, just as she prepares to renovate her house—further stretching her spending.--Avery Victoria Spencer must face an old tragedy or suffer the humiliating consequences of her vicious need to spend more than she earns. George Robert Logan is Avery's long-forgotten husband.  wenty years ago, a terrible accident stunned Avery into dissociative amnesia. George has tried to move on; but he can't. George's return triggers an unconscious awakening inside Avery.  Her silent cry for rescue seeps into her dreams, landing her to a medieval castle where a smart-aleck candle leads her to clues to solve her problem, which, she will learn, has nothing to do with money. Logan's return triggers Avery's first fantastical dream—a dream that could unravel the source of Avery's financial problem, which has nothing to do with money. Is she willing to remember who she really is? A quest for many modern women, The Avery Victoria Spencer Fables are the author's intimate series of stories that brought her to an authentic life. Welcome to Book One, Woman Who Forgot Who She Was. From the uniquely historic city of Waukesha, Wisconsin comes a story of facing loneliness, forgotten love, and the courage to transcend a troubled past.   For every major life issue she has faced, award-winning author Vivian Probst has been given a story—often in a dream—that unveils the root cause. Despair, weariness, unworthiness, rage, illusion about who she really is—these captivating fables have all led to triumph over incredible obstacles. In The Avery Victoria Spencer Fables, we journey to an inner world where all that is forgotten begs to be reclaimed. Book One is now available with more to come!  

The Woman Who Fell Out Of Fear Book Two of The Avery Victoria Spencer Fables finds Avery returned from her first inner journey in glorious triumph.Her financial despair has vanished and incredible debts are magically resolved. Avery is beginning to see herself in a new light—and she feels drawn toward George Logan without knowing why; except that he's British, handsome, and seems to know her design preferences intimately.    She feels like a new woman which is sort of wonderful. But change can be terrifying.  Avery's high energy has vanished. She couldn't care less about her upcoming holiday gala, which is the highlight of Waukesha's social calendar and keeps her in the public eye. She likes the English stranger, George Logan, and she hasn't been attracted to a man in years.  Instead of being more energized and enthusiastic, Avery is stunned that her once relentless energy has evaporated. She's more intuitive and a better bank president, but she doesn't care about previously important activities, including her upcoming charitable winter gala.  Everyone who's anyone in Waukesha is waiting for invites to her now-renowned party, including society columnist Millie St. James who is tracking Avery's every move, and suspects George Logan's arrival is not as serendipitous as it appears.   Believing her energy was accidentally left behind on her first journey, Avery asks to return to her inner world. Back in a castle with her beloved candle, she's shocked by how different everything feels—almost sinister. Instead of singing torches, skeletal soldiers hail her as 'Great One.'  Instead of a dungeon, she's trapped in a throne room; instead of regal décor, a grotesque tapestry beckons her.     Avery's second adventure will make her wonder why she returned. Yet, as she braves what confronts her, she begins to see how deeply unworthy she has felt all her life. She will come to a pinnacle from which she must decide her fate.  As her candle melts and falls from her hand, Avery must decide what to do. Will she dance with her nemesis forever, or let herself follow her candle into something she has never known, and uncover more about who she really is?     From the uniquely historic city of Waukesha, Wisconsin comes a story of facing loneliness, forgotten love, and tha courage to transcend a troubled past. A quest for many modern women, The Avery Victoria Spencer Fables are an intimate series of stories that brought the author to an authentic life. Welcome to Book Two.

Avery Victoria Spencer is the woman who forgot who she was--before trauma-induced amnesia erased a slice of her story, her marriage, her family. Nearly twenty years later, Avery's becoming more conscious of who she really is.Two incredible inner journeys have brought her to a deeper understanding of herself and her power to create a wonderful life. She's kinder to herself and others, and at long last has made amends with her strange and withdrawn father. Even love has peeked out timidly in the person of George Robert Logan, a man with whom she is enjoying a platonic relationship, while hoping for more.   But Avery stumbles over two tough patches in her life journey: her father dies, leaving her with no sense of her family's past, and George disappears suddenly. His father in London has had a heart attack, he claims. Avery thinks otherwise because their attempt at intimacy has failed miserably. Torn apart by grief and outrage, Avery can't get out of bed, much less go to work.   A three-month leave of absence is arranged as Avery goes through what is rumored among social circles to be a 'mid-life crisis,' a.k.a. 'second Saturn return,' a.k.a. 'Dark Night of the Soul.' Whatever it's called, Avery stubbornly refuses to request any assistance from her inner realm, where powerful forces are still at work. Instead, she clutches her bed sheets refusing to embrace who she is becoming. But life has a work-around.   Avery's third journey lands her in a very small cave, surrounded by shadows of grieving and fearful women who comfort her, until an intimidating and angry mountain threatens to turn her to shadow as well, if she refuses to face her rage. It could be Avery's last chance to become real. She must complete her course, no matter how terrifying. Every irritation, every morsel of disquiet, every piece of unresolved bitterness shows up on her mountain trek—not for her to battle, but for her to love and embrace. Underneath her rageaholic tendencies, she will find her full and real self—which includes both her masculine and feminine energies. It's called wholeness.     Avery has never been a champion of femininity ('wimpy females' is how she refers to those of her own gender), and is obviously uncomfortable with her own sexuality. As she faces her mountain, she encounters an enormous serpent, claiming to be from the Garden of Eden. Terrified of snakes, Avery would run away if she could, but their meeting occurs on a narrow mountain ledge about 11,000 feet above sea level. There is no escape. At least, both she and her slithering guide like cigars.   It's that last piece—love—that Avery needs before she can return to her life and face everything she had chosen to forget. If she can do that, she will be strong enough to move into full acceptance of who she really is, restoring herself from a heart-breaking past and stepping into true love. For without love, all is lost.   The thing about buried trauma is that it doesn't stay buried; Life wakes it up. The Avery Victoria Spencer Fables are an intimate series of stories that brought this author to an authentic life. Welcome to Book Three: The Woman Who Found Her Fire.   Set in the charming historical city of Waukesha, Wisconsin, an inspired fable of a woman with a forgotten past, and a life calling her forward to restore her true wholeness.

Book Four: The Woman Who Forgave Herself When Avery Victoria Spencer reaches to close a window shutter against a pounding London rainstorm, an old photo falls into her hands, restoring long-forgotten, painful memories. It was all my fault, she remembers. Stunned by grief and remorse, she grabs an umbrella and leaves the house with no idea where to go. When the umbrella blocks her view of an approaching car, she ends up on life support.   Avery hovers between Life and Death. The Angel of Life argues for her to live because she has so much to live for—if she can forgive herself for something she never intended to happen. But Avery is tempted by the idea of a 'do-over' in her next life, offered by the lovely, but impatient, Angel of Death who has pressing quotas to fill.   Avery's husband, George, has waited years for her to love him again, and will not live without her. Whither thou goest, I will go.