HEALDSBURG, CA – Author Pamela Taeuffer has released Shadow Heart, a slow, sensual, romance novel that explores the trauma of growing up with feelings of deep abandonment because of an alcoholic father who has chosen a bottle of alcohol over his family. This novel shows the reader how a woman coming of age begins to question why she is not comfortable with relationships of any kind – friends, family, and the intimacy she craves so deeply.
Nobody wants to talk about them, but there are events that occur in our lives that become deep dark secrets we hold inside. And they dramatically influence who we are and who we become.
Such is the case for seventeen year-old Nicky Young who was raised by an alcoholic father and disengaged mother. When Nicky tries to make her way into the world she is confronted by the demons of her dysfunctional and sometimes violent upbringing.
Unlike many of her friends, she has shied away from boys, makeup, and clothes, instead focusing on achievement and her goal of getting into Stanford. But when Nicky meets Ryan Tilton, a sexy, high profile professional baseball player eight years her senior, a strong desire is awakened in her.
Nicky questions Ryan’s motives for wanting to be with an inexperienced girl. Is he a scoundrel or does he genuinely care about her? Nicky is both excited and frightened, torn between protecting her heart and wanting to trust. Ryan brings his own demons — losing his father at the age of fourteen, and a sexual partner from his past who will not leave him alone.
Will their young, uncertain love be enough to help them open their hearts and experience intimacy they both crave so deeply or are Nicky and Ryan on a collision course?
Loosely based on the author’s life growing up in San Francisco, this inspired contemporary romance novel deals with the disturbing secrets siblings share, the dance between love and protecting one’s heart, and the innate desire to connect with another even when it means risking everything.
Can she ever open her heart to another?
Will she ever be able to trust intimacy?
The relationships she struggles with, can she trust them?
Or will she be left all over again, shutting down her heart forever?
Shadow Heart: An inspired contemporary romance novel that deals with the disturbing secrets siblings share, the dance between love and protecting one’s heart, and the innate desire to connect with another even when it means risking everything.
About the book: Shadow Heart by Pamela Taeuffer
ISBN: 978-0989952903
Publisher: Open Heart Press
Date of publish: February 2014
Pages: 318
S.R.P.: $14.95
About the author:
Because she was raised in a family battling alcoholism, she understands trauma and being in survival mode every day, affecting each choice they make and the relationships they form. Sharing this dysfunctional way of growing up is the very core of Shadow Heart, the first novel of her Broken Bottles Series, honest and truly revealing, with the message of an open and hopeful heart.
A believer that life changing events happen only if we risk everything and step out of our shadows, through this intimate and beautiful love story, Ms. Taeuffer shows how we can stop the generations of addiction and recover by being vulnerable and seeking intimacy in all relationships.
Ms. Taeuffer has more than twenty novels being published now and in the future including a series on being introverted and another about loving and respecting our bodies, however they may be.
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