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Looking
for the perfect Valentine?
My
Last Romance - the romance that lasts forever...
If
every day is Valentine's Day
for you and your beloved...
My
Last Romance & other passions
by
Kathleen Valentine
Eight
stories that celebrate the wonder of finding love... These
stories sweep the reader into sensuous worlds
where ordinary people discover, or rediscover, love. Foolish
love, forbidden love, married love – even murderous love,
each story is a seductive jewel populated with characters that
seem like someone we could know – or someone we could be. Each
of the stories in this collection is an exquisitely rendered
portrait of people from a broad range of ages each proving that
passion and love are eternal, regardless of life's far-ranging
challenges.
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My
Last Romance and other passions
Eight Stories by Kathleen Valentine
ISBN: 0-9785940-5-3 • $12.00
• An
aging torch-singer, now retired with her musician lover,
encounters a lover from her youth who abandoned her without
explanation, and finds her passions reignited as never before.
• A sophisticated business woman falls in love all over
again when her husband takes her to his home town in a Louisiana
Bayou and teaches her to dance.
• A shopkeeper waits for his lover on a fog-shrouded
night passing the time discussing desire with his fisherman
son.
• A childless wife finds consolation for her feelings
of failure with her husband's older cousin - a hard-living
mariner. |
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING...
My
Last Romance is a short story anthology of eight romantic
tales that speak of dishonesty, forbidden love and passion.
Speaking of lives and emotions that most of us can relate
to, this collection will touch your soul for many months
to come.
Kathleen Valentine writes with an honesty and flair that is both
refreshing and poignant at the same time. The characters face a multitude
of emotions and desires that mirrors the intensity of their own personal
difficulties in life. But, that is not all. To be loved so deeply
is something we all yearn for and this book surely helps you to believe
that this is possible for every person to attain no matter how old
they happen to be.
Nothing I've read in the romance genre this year can possibly come
close to this anthology for its breathtaking exploratory into the
human psyche.
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Carrie White, Hentracks Review Bulletin
Gorgeous!
Very poignant. It is a wonderful thing to be able to immerse
a reader in an entire era,
a way of life, a culture in miniature – places, forms
of music, habits of speech ... I felt transported,
and that's something good fiction must do for me.
- Peter
Anastas, author of No Fortunes and Broken
Trip
Kathleen
Valentine's stories are as varied as the women of the world,
and their great passions are never simple or uncomplicated.
Her understanding of the human heart drives these stories,
filled with nuance, pitch-perfect voice, surprise, and heartache.
These are stories of women who have lived full lives, taking
risks and living out the dictates of their passion. -Susan
Oleksiw, author of A Murderous Innocence and Friends
and Enemies
Kathleen
Valentine just may have invented a whole new genre: sensual
romance for the baby-boomer generation. It’s so refreshing
(and, may we say, encouraging) to read about characters of
a certain age who are still desirable and passionate. -Jane
Daniel, publisher of Gigolos
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