Belinda Vasquez Garcia

About

Belinda Vasquez Garcia is the author of the award-winning magical series, the LAND OF ENCHANTMENT TRILOGY. In 2013 and 2014, the books won 4 Best Fantasy Awards and a Books Into Movies Award.

RETURN OF THE BONES won Best Historical Fiction for the 2013 New Mexico / Arizona Book Awards. For the 2014 International Latino Book Awards, the novel has won Best Historical Fiction, Best eBook and Best Audio Book.

In her own words:

I breathe life into my characters just so that you may read their story. My goal is to entertain and touch you by making you laugh, cry, get angry, i.e. go through the emotional experience that makes us all human and by doing so, humanize my characters.

I know the pain of an impoverished upbringing, dysfunctional family, and other obstacles life threw in my way but still, I triumphed. Even though I was left without parents at the age of 16, I sometimes stumbled, but still managed to put myself though college, receiving a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics.

What makes me tick? Because of my dysfunctional upbringing, I am a broken clock, yet keep perfect time.

I have a strong Native American influence from my youth. This old Native American with skin like leather, used to visit my dad and they'd sit around the table, smoke and drink. He wore a bandana around his iron-grey hair, with a braid falling to the middle of his back. He wore whiskey-stained khakis, a colorful Native American shirt and high-top tennis shoes. My dad would sputter words of drunken wisdom and the old man would grunt. He'd then wobble drunkenly to the end of our street where he worked as a live-in summer gardner for my aunt. He perspired in a one-room shed with a cot for a bed.

I was born in the Los Angeles area but have family in Manhattan and visit often. My love of New York City motivated me to write I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU.

If you wish to know more about me, I have a memoir in ebook form THE BIGAMIST & THE WOMANIZER, Memoirs of My Father.

I thank you for any interest in me and my books.

Vital Temptations: A Heart's Betrayal

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Dr. Bethany McNeal is living her dream as a pediatric resident in one of the most sought-after medical centers in Seattle. Beautiful and intelligent, she’s missing only one thing—love, which she put on hold to focus on her career after ending a tumultuous relationship. Everything changes when she meets Dr. Brent Anderson, a charming and handsome fellow resident. Despite her reservations, Bethany falls for Brent—hard. When she learns Brent is married several months into their relationship, she immediately breaks it off. After graduating residency and going their separate ways, Bethany tries to move on with another man—real estate broker and personal trainer Charles Blakely. But just when things get serious with Charles, she realizes she’s still in love with Brent, and she finds herself caught between the two men, facing a series of difficult decisions and harrowing events that will change her life forever. Will she be able to recover from the vital temptations that turned her perfect life upside down?

Story Behind The Book

President George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, stole Geronimo's skull to be used as initiation into the Skull and Bones Society at Yale. These 2,067 skeletons contributed to mankind by proving that exercise strengthens bones in the landmark osteoporosis study.

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Press Release

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Colorado Magazine

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Albuquerque Arts and Entertainment

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Reviews

WINNER 2013 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION New Mexico - Arizona Book Awards! "The information archaeologists, anthropologists and cultural historians collect in their work usually collects dust in library basements of universities and emerges, if at all, only in reports in academic prose as dry as the dust on the file folder. In her novel, RETURN OF THE BONES, Belinda Vasquez Garcia takes scientific facts that lie dormant in these files and gives us a fascinating, very readable real account of the death of the people who once lived in the long ruined Pecos Pueblo, of the search for their bones, and the remarkable amount of information medical sciences has collected from them. The book also casts light on important chapters in our past of which too many Americans are totally ignorant."Tony Hillerman, New York Times Best Selling Author

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