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Vikki Cleveland
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Date Posted: Sat, Dec 03 2005, 12:55:47
Last year I let you know when my genealogy how-to book was up and running. Now I want to tell you that my novel, The Roommates, has been released. Both The Roommates and Rooting Out Your AnceStory: A Primer for Beginning Genealogy are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Lulu.com.
If you would like to meet the roommates:
Blond and beautiful, twins Jordyn and Siara Nealy are bound by an uncanny, unspoken communication called “twinstinct,” but they are as different in personality as they are identical in appearance. Outgoing, blunt, and aggressive, Jordyn expresses herself in dance and in her relationships with men. Siara is shy, timid, and soft-spoken, but her connection with only one man manages to complicate all the roommates’ lives when he is murdered—and both twins had reasons for wanting him dead.
Jayme McCray, the sportswriter, works in a world filled with men, but her heart has room for only one of them as she devotes her life and her talent to the pursuit of an impossible dream. She transforms from an overweight tomboy into a stunning auburn-haired beauty who attracts the passions of two men, one American, one Lebanese, but the boy next door is the object of her stubborn quest—a man who wants her to bear his child, but not his name.
Darica Cervantes, the youngest roommate, is the most devout, but also the one with the darkest secret, a secret she keeps hidden in the Bible that she reads devotedly each night before she goes to bed—a secret that destroys her passion and leads her into a spiral of alienation and aberration.
Spanning thirty-three years from 1951 to 1984, The Roommates weaves the lives of these women into a story of friends who share consequences of love and loyalty, but also betrayal, abuse, and even murder as fate brings them together in the house on Meadow Lane. Will their friendship be strong enough to survive scandal and death in this small college community in downstate Illinois? (Rated R for strong language and adult situations)
About the Author (That's Me!):
Vikki L. Jeanne Cleveland, who is in her 29th year as a teacher at a rural Illinois high school, is a former “Exemplary Teacher,” a 2005 recipient of a “Yale Teaching Award,” and a recent nominee for Who’s Who Among American Teachers. She is editor of a quarterly genealogical newsletter, Cleveland Family Chronicles. Her how-to book, Rooting Out Your AnceStory: a Primer for Beginning Genealogy (ISBN 1-4116-0922-0), is currently available online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The Roommates is her first novel. She makes her home with her furry family (Melanie, Chelsie, and Elly Fae) in her hometown of Salem, IL, where she is working on her second novel, The Wading Place.
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