About
The youngest of eight children, Levana was creating stories before she could read or write by folding loose pieces of paper together and drawing pictures. By the time she reached her teens, she was writing romance for her high school friends.
She currently lives in sunny south Florida with her husband, teenaged son, and two crazy cats. Aside from inventing new stuff in the kitchen, writing, and reading, she enjoys listening to all kinds of rock music, jazz, esoteric and new age. A cancer survivor, her motto is LIVE, LOVE, AND LAUGH.
Keep up to date with Levana and her latest works at www.levanahyll.weebly.com
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
Fallen Angel began as a pile of referance notes I had When I started writing the Alpha Angels series. The first book, started in 1988, after a wierd dream I'd had I rewrote in 2010. It took me two weeks to write the whole thing. Afterwords, I continued with Angel of Retribution, Golden Angel, and then Dark Angel. The next book was supposed to be Angel of redemption, but I decided to take a break, knowing that Angel of Redemption was going to be a toughy emotionally because it dealt with sexual abuse. Going over my notes, I began to think how great telling Davariel and Luciel's story would be and wrote it as an experiment. The story captivated me totally and When the time to publish came, the sixth book was released first as FALLEN ANGEL. It was originally released in the summer of 2010, after a major surgery I had and sold extremely well. After two years, I uploaded it partially on the literotica website where it gained popularity. Based on suggestions I recieved from readers, I revised FALLEN ANGEL, focusing more in the opening scenes on Davariel's point of view and reinserting the sensual scenes I'd taken out the first time out of (ahem) embarassment. I thought the scenes were too racey. Still do, but what the heck. It's erotica ;)
