Put a little beauty in your day...
Visit www.HeartThrobBooks.com for literary romance instant gratification!

BOOKS

ePRESS
Heart Throb Books
(your literary romance
instant gratification!)

BLOGS

WEB LINKS

 

	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. Buy from Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com
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. - 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

Note: As soon as you complete your purchase your screen should be redirected to the download site. If you wait more than 2 minutes and do not see the PDF file (7.5MB) please email me and I will send you the link for downloading. Please be advised that some email programs have been filtering out the redirection, AOL especially may do this. If you are not redirected, email and I will send the link.

The Mermaid Shawl:
Shawls, Cocoons & Wraps
by Kathleen Valentine
Inspired by the popularity of The Mermaid Shawl first featured on Parlez-Moi Blog, this book provides instruction for the Mermaid Shawl and two variations, the Gypsy Shawl, and the Shawl of Falling Leaves and Shooting Stars. In addition there are chapters on creating Emily's Shawl, four stoles and wraps and how to convert a rectangular shawl into a cocoon.

Photographs, charts, and illustrations. Available as an eBook or as a paperback.

About the Author

Kathleen Valentine is the author of The Old Mermaid's Tale: A Novel of the Great Lakes. Her crime short stories have been published in Level Best Books’ annual anthology of crime stories by New England Writers. She has published articles about art in such magazines as American Art Review. Her blog at Parlez-Moi Blog has been read by thousands of readers since its beginning in July 2005.

She currently lives in
Gloucester, Massachusetts,
America’s oldest seaport.