Awakening the lost woman is essentially a modern day Romance, with a strong story supported by erotica. The book has 80,000 words and is the first in a series of three full length novels. Directed at the Fifty Shades of Grey market, this book extends the world of female erotica beyond the twenty one year old virgin and her one and only man. The theme of the book is about women taking control of their lives, financially, emotionally and sexually. The book includes art, architecture, design, fashion, food and wine. It takes place across a range of locations, rural and inner city, and different countries, Australia, America and Asia. Christina Maxwell had put her life on hold being the good wife. This was not the plan of the ambitious and creative young woman who had dreamt of bigger things.

Widowed and still young she must begin life again, to discover what she has missed, and to find her true self. She moves away from the leafy middle class suburbs, where she had been watched over by her husband's overbearing family and friends, into an edgy, inner city apartment. Starting a blog, initially to counter her detractors, she is surprised to find it gives her a voice instead. Becoming a successful blogger, best selling author and fashion designer opens up a world of opportunity miles away from the dowdy housewife she had once been. Her new found success gives her the confidence to discover her body, sex and men. After finding sexual fulfilment she wonders if there is more than the brief encounters of the last few months. For the first time in her life she wonders if she might find love.