title: The Awakening
author: Johnson, Allen
description: How do you find love where love does not exist?
  
  From out of a barefoot boyhood among endless rows of olive trees, and a forbidden passion for a courageous Moroccan beauty, to a horrific struggle against tyranny in the war-torn streets of 1936 Granada, comes a story where love cannot exist without mercy ... mercy one carries for one's whole life as a badge of honor ... mercy and compassion passed down from generation to generation.
  
  Diego Garcia is now the gentle patriarch in a sun-scorched village perched among the rolling hills and olive groves of Andalusia, Spain. Diego survived the bloody Spanish Civil War only at great cost, and his enduring wish is that he could have saved others. His granddaughter, the lovely Lupita, is the town's physician, whose competence is surpassed only by her compassion. Together they breathe new life into a mysterious American stranger, brutally beaten and robbed, suffering from amnesia, whose suppressed past is so scarred by his own malice and deceit that he dare not awaken -- save through the guiding grace of love.
  
  Together, the three forge a new beginning and find redemption in trust, love, and acceptance of the past ... a past they would do anything to leave behind.