Eva Fischer-Dixon

Broschiertes Buch

The Chava Diamond Chronicles

The Shades of Love and Hate

Beschreibung

Chava Diamond's writing career had risen to the top when she became the country's number one bestselling novelist. It came to her as a surprise that her long time agent wanted something new from her, something that she was neither interested nor wanted to write about, vampires. She agreed that it was an up and coming genre, both in movies and on the television, but Chava was already busy with writing a new novel and finishing the latest Lacking motivation, interest and ideas, she gives in to Angela's request and travels to Romania; a country she is not particularly fond of due to some previous bad experiences there. After meeting her Romanian tour guide, a young woman named Milena, Chava becomes interested in her story about the murders and disappearances of her family members. When Milena also disappears, Chava is stunned. Not having transportation or a tour guide, she reluctantly accepts the assistance of a handsome and mysterious man whom she meets by chance. While Alexandru, "Alex" to his friends, shows her around, he also appears to be her savior when multiple times strangers make attempts on Chava's life. Dead bodies, disappearances, mystery castles' secret chambers compare nothing to Chava's suspicions about Alex who seems to be feared by everyone they encounter. Although she is drawn to him like a magnet, Chava has never been more determined in her life than about finding out Alex's past, about the man who wears nothing but black, the color of hate.

Autor

I came into this troubled world during the early morning hours of June 17, 1950, in the city of Budapest, Hungary. I was the first and last child of my 41-year-old mother and my father who was 45 years old at the time of my birth. As I did not know any better, I could not possibly understand that we were living in poverty, as I was growing up with loving parents and there was always a bite to eat. My childhood was poor and saddened with tragedies. As a six-year-old child I witnessed the bloody 1956 revolution and received the first taste of true prejudice by those of whom I thought liked us, yet turned against my family. That tragedy did not match the untimely death of my beloved father when I was not yet seven years old, on February 14, 1957. My mother remarried in 1959 and our financial situation was upgraded from poverty to poor. After finishing elementary school I made a decision to earn money as soon as possible to ease our financial situation and I enrolled in a two-year business college (high school diploma was not required). I received my Associate Degree in 1966 and I began to work as a 16-year-old certified secretary/bookkeeper. During the same period I began my high-school education, which I completed while working full-time and attending night school. I discovered my love for writing when I was 11 years old after a movie that my childhood friend and I saw in the movie theater. We were not pleased with the ending and Steven suggested that I should write a different ending that we both liked. Voila, a writer was born. With my family's encouragement, I entered a writing contest given by a youth oriented magazine and to my genuine surprise, I won second price. My desire to live in a free country and to improve my life was so great, that in 1972, leaving everything, including my aging parents behind, I managed to escape from Hungary during a tour to Austria, (then) Yugoslavia and Italy. I spent almost nine long months in a rat infested refugee camp, located Capua, Italy, while I waited for official permission to immigrate to the country of my dreams, to the USA. In 1975 I met and married a wonderful man, my husband Guy. Thanks to his everlasting patience, he assisted me in my task of learning the English language. He is truly my partner for life and I remain forever grateful to him for standing by me in some tough times. It is difficult for me to describe my love for writing. I cannot think of a bigger emotional joy for an author than to see a published novel in somebody's hand and to see a story come alive on the screen. I yearn to experience that joy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 153g
• ISBN-13: 9781450019217
• ISBN-10: 1450019218
• Artikelnr.: 30314184