Euphoria is based on a true story of an ambitious and hedonistic young playboy executive whose motivations involve money, expensive toys, and endless lust for beautiful women. Sebastian Kosta nearly has it all, but he wants more. He travels the world for business while accumulating an extensive album of intense sexual encounters and endless conquests. Seba wants nothing less than becoming a successful partner at the top of his prestigious company and millions to spend on luxuries and entertainment. While working on the project in Toronto, Sebastian falls in love with a beautiful woman, Renata. He wants to have a future with her. But he has to interrupt their affair and travel for business to India. There, Sebastian goes through a spiritual awakening that does not only change his outlook on values and priorities, but forcefully pushes him to reevaluate his whole life. Immediately after the awakening, Sebastian is hit with a personal crisis of epic proportions. Kosta's entire being is shaken to its very core. Upon leaving India, Seba ends up at a hospital in Germany, committed against his will. He has to do whatever it takes to return home to the United States.
de Leão, Ricardo: - Ricardo de Leão was born in 1973, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. When he was 3 years old, his family moved to the United States. His first memory from an early childhood in Brazil involved the very prediction about Ricardo being a natural leader. That happened when his mother took her young son to a spirituality center where Ricardo went through a ritual of cleansing from all the negative energy surrounding the society at that period time. That's where the prediction about Ricardo's inborn leadership was made. Among all the sports he participated in, surfing was his truest passion, the love of his life. It was through surfing and his incredible connection with the ocean and nature that Ricardo started developing his awareness of spirituality and deep connection with nature and people. Ricardo de Leao attributes his ambitious nature and commitment to never quitting or giving up to sports in general and surfing in particular. After graduating with an undergraduate degree in Finance, Ricardo pursued further and went on to obtain an MBA in International Business. After forming a considerable educational portfolio, one of Ricardo's professors urged him to become a management consultant. The career that guaranteed extensive traveling and a great salary. At first, de Leão enjoyed the high life and the travels, but at the same time, he felt something was missing, something he couldn't figure out at the time. After ten years in consulting, a personal and shocking crisis forced Ricardo to change his entire life. He couldn't travel any more, thus, he had to look for a new career path. Today, Ricardo de Leao is a happily married father of two. He enjoys nature, sports and the simplicity of universal constants such as love, truth, joy and spiritual enrichment through kindness and writing. Euphoria is his first novel. It has an auto-biographical nature and through it, Ricardo wants to reveal his life, its ups and downs, and teach the readers some valuable life lessons in acceptance, spirituality and self-awareness.
