"Description: If youve ever been on either end of the question "Whats your sign?" you have Linda Goodman to thank, or blame. Americas first New Age celebrity, her 1968 astrology book Sun Signs was the first of its kind to become a New York Times best seller (with over 60 million copies sold) and the advance for her second book, Love Signs, was an unprecedented $2.25 million. Yet, while Linda was teaching the world how to search the skies for clarity, she was also involved in her own mysterious pursuit. In 1973, her daughter was found dead and police declared it a suicide. Linda believed something more unusual was afoot, and spent years depleting her fortune, chasing down leads that might bring her beloved daughter. Many criticized her efforts, and the revolutionary nature of Lindas literary efforts have been largely forgotten since her death in 1995. But what happened to Linda Goodman? This question plagued Courtney Ann LaFaive who discovered Lindas work as a teenager at the public library decades after her heyday.

Upon reading Lindas theories that love is "magic" and everyones "deepest need," LaFaive became a devotee of her work. Later as a doctoral student, LaFaive seeks to redeem Goodman as a literary and spiritual figure in her dissertation. Yet, LaFaives own impulsive forays into love and marriage compromise everything Linda ever wrote, and LaFaives attempts to find the truth about Goodmans life run into roadblock after roadblock. In LaFaives pursuit of the truth about Linda Goodman, Follow the Signs asks what it means when facts become stranger than fiction, wrenching truths come to light, and we must walk away from those we love"-- Provided by publisher.