About
A native of Louisville, Kentucky, I moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 2014 with my husband and dogs. I have been writing since I learned how to do so and love the storytelling process. However, due to low self-esteem, I have always had a strong fear of publishing my work. Now that I am trying to push past that fear, I am ready to share my work with the world and try to turn my passion into a fulfilling (and, hopefully, lucrative) full-time career.
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
She will not accept,
what she cannot change.
In 2090, Louisville, Kentucky, Erika is the perfect woman: obedient, flawlessly beautiful, and married to the richest man in the region. After overcoming a personal trauma, she’s even grown a business out of showing people how to be good, subordinate spouses for peaceful homes and long-lasting marriages. This is the happiest she’s ever been...until the first mistress confronts her.
This revelation about her true value to her husband turns her world inside-out. How will she be able to save her marriage, maintain her reputation, and hold on to her freedom?
Follow Erika’s journey from vixen, to victim, to villain in this psychological thriller from the poet who brought you Feign.
You’ll be engrossed until the very last page!
Reviews
<p>"...left me with tears in my eyes..." --Stella, Louisville, Kentucky</p>
<p>"The first chapter haunted me for weeks." --Amy, Stone Mountain, Georgia</p>
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