About
Bestselling author Angela Kay Austin has expressed herself through words for as long as she can remember. Poems became songs performed with her cousin at every family gathering. But, eventually, short stories filled her favorite pink diary. An infatuation with music and theater led to years playing various instruments and small extra roles in TV shows before giving way to a degree and career in radio and TV production. After completing another degree in marketing, Angela found herself combining her love for all things creative and worked for many many years in promotions and advertising. But once again, she found herself writing, which led to her first published work which stayed on her publisher's bestseller list for ten weeks. Her second release hit the bestseller list at All Romance eBooks. She's spoken on author panels, and served on boards for various author groups.
When she's not writing, you can find her reading her favorite authors, or researching her next story idea. Angela shares her downtime with her mixed-bred rescue terrier--Midnight, in the beautiful southern state of Tennessee.
Angela has written for the Ezine Rithm 'n Blues. And she's also a member of Romance Writers of America, From the Heart Romance Writers, Chick Lit Writers of the World, and River City Romance Writers.
Description
<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>
Story Behind The Book
Dedication
To strong women everywhere. Survivors.
Acknowledgements
If you said to someone you love, “Give me everything.” What would that mean to them, or to you? As the idea for this book grew inside of me, I interviewed friends and family to attempt to get an understanding of just what it could mean.
Bearing your heart and soul to anyone is scary. There is the very real possibility that when you do open and offer your heart, the person you want may not respect or reciprocate the gift. And it is a gift.
It’s even harder to take that chance when you have fears based on past failures in love and life.
To everyone who’s ever been hurt by love, dusted themselves off, and gave it one more try...don’t stop loving.
