This, the first novella in the Mariposa Oracle series, is the kickoff to Mariposa's often hilarious real-life adventures. Laid off from her job as an online producer, Mariposa enters the world of "skin" quite by accident or by divine intervention. Never intending to use her massage license professionally, life has other things in mind. She ends up buying a massage business in the Queen City (Charlotte, NC) just as the state implements regulation of massage. But, Mariposa has never run a business. She has never even given a professional massage. Mariposa Oracle's first year of business ownership shows how crisis and intense stress can be a healing opportunity in disguise in this historical fiction meets memoir reveal with an upbeat vibe mixed with can-do grit. Offering often little-known details about the licensed massage industry, the novella is part confession and part insider's guide to massage - everything you wanted to know, didn't want to know - and more

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