Confluence

In Entangling - The Stepping Stones Trilogy Part One - Joe and Samantha Eddington discovered a hidden truth about honesty, far greater than they had imagined; that truth can be a doorway — to liberation from a wilderness of fear, jealousy and old shame. Hosting their first retreat - under guidance from their trusted friend Aaron - The Eddingtons usher a gathering of curious souls through a weekend of guided intimacy, where borders blur; hands, vows and secrets meet. Their tentative steps into honesty become a crucible: tenderness and desire, grief and revelation spill into one another until nothing in the group remains untouched. Senses are unshackled, strangers become mirrors, stories become sparks, and suppressed longing finally finds voice. The retreat cracks open what each guest has held too long—shame, hunger, devotion—and leaves in its wake new forms of longing and fierce compassion. Warm, candid and unflinching, Confluence asks what it really costs to live without secrecy — and what is gained when love, desire and courage flow together. Confluence is a patient, intimate study of the work it takes to be seen— how healing moves like a current, and how transformation asks for both courage and surrender. With fierce tenderness and electric honesty, the messy physics of desire, the price of truth, and the possibility of starting over are explored. Raw, sensual and unflinchingly human—this is the middle volume of a trilogy about what happens when people stop hiding.