Denise’s life is full, and yet completely empty. Stuck in a loveless marriage, even the thrill of running a New York City bakeshop and working at a major opera house can’t fill the gaping hole in her heart. Then, one evening, Vincenzo Moretti walks up the grand staircase at Masterworks Opera. When their eyes meet, Denise knows it would be folly to fight her feelings. When Vincenzo returns to his home city of Rome, Denise is heartbroken – but she always knew it wouldn’t last. Then one day, he … [Read more...] about After All These Years – Prelude by D.D. Bartholomew
Becoming Carlotta: A Biographical Novel by Brenda Murphy
Hazel Tharsing was born in California in 1888. Intensely shy, she learned to meet the world as the glamorous actress Carlotta Monterey, by far the greatest acting role of her twenty-year career. Counted among the most beautiful women in America, she married a British aristocrat in London, then the twenty-year-old son of her mother’s lover in San Francisco, then a famous artist in New York, and finally America’s greatest playwright, Eugene O’Neill, in Paris. This novel about her life is an … [Read more...] about Becoming Carlotta: A Biographical Novel by Brenda Murphy
