**Broken Life - A Fight for Forever - Book 1** By Vangie Williams ISBN: 978-1-448-60855-3
This book is about love cursed in Old Africa. A young African maiden falls in love with a Frenchman captured by her father's warriors. As she watches and cares for him over the next twenty-one days, she is captivated by his beautiful green eyes and his genuine smile and breaks tribal law when she asks her father to be his bride instead of her chosen husband. Her father King Sundiata could not refuse his youngest daughter and allows her to leave Africa with the Frenchman; what she doesn't know is that the tribal shaman has placed a curse on her and all of her female descendants. "21 suns you feel in love and left your people, 21 moons shall you love your girl child".
Jump forward to our time and young Bethel began having dreams of African and French women who speak to her and show her the paths of their lives.
Broken Life - A Fight for Forever - Book 1 is about Marguerite, the third women in her dreams and the woman who writes the first entry in the journal that her deceased mother left her. Her dreams are so vivid that she is a shadow watching the past in the future.
This is a romantic tale of steamy passion and boiling fervor, which also wraps itself in the arms of virtually unexplored history. Moreover, this zeal-filled story crosses time, racial, cultural lines as well as the vast Atlantic. From generation to generation, a special lineage of rare love is interrupted, entwined lives are broken, and fragile dreams are shattered because of an unrelenting curse rooted in the motherland. Yet, the rigorous fight to break the curse's menacing grip steadily climaxes as young Bethel gains wisdom through her visions as well as the truths spoken from her father’s reluctant tongue. And then there is the cherished wooden box, a treasured but mysterious heirloom, which connects Bethel to both the curse and a counter to the same. Upon possessing the box, she discovers the nearly elusive path to victory. Through a series of visions, which first take her to the mid 1800’s, she sees the way…
I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Vangie
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Anya (Reviewer for Coffee Time Romance & More) 4 Cups (out of 5) - The relationship between Thomas and Marguerite is fascinating and how they adjust to each other while meeting the support characters is interesting. The horrors they see and the secrets they keep while openly demonstrating their love for one another is, to me, the best part of the book. Their dialogue is very convincing and moving. The support characters, the good and the very bad, are intriguing but numerous. The book is very detailed and complicated and readers need to pay strict attention. It is these details though that gives the book depth. As the book returns to Bethel and modern times, the ending is interesting and sets up for book two in the Broken Life-Fight for Forever series. I am expecting great things from Ms Williams.
Martha Jett (writer and editor) wrote "Author Vangie Williams has developed her characters well and we quickly come to care for them as if they, indeed, were family. The plot is also well thought out and the story is written with great care when dealing with delicate subjects. Overall, this book is a ...great read, especially if you are interested in understanding life and how people thought during America’s early days. And as noted in the title, this book is called ‘Book 1,’ so it can be assumed that the story of this unrelenting curse is not yet over." For the full review visit http://bookmarket.ning.com/group/bookreviews/forum/topics/book-review-broken-life
Irene Brodsky (Published Poet, Author - Author of Poetry Unplugged (Outskirts Press)) wrote I recently had the privilege of reading "Broken Life - A Fight for Forever - Book 1" By Vangie Williams. Her book reads like a diary you may have had as a young girl, but this one is filled with beautiful, old-fashioned romance from a day gone by, when ladies wore long breathtaking gowns and never went out without a chaperone. Just like the days of Scarlett O'Hara. Then, Ms. Williams adds intrigue to these young ladies, telling of their slave ancestors, hidden secrets of a wooden box, mixed-marriages, crossing cultural lines, vivid dreams, a young lady’s travels leading to meeting the love of her life, to become her husband. Add to this an unrelenting curse rooted in the motherland...unknown to our heroine.... So fascinating, exciting, creative, and just wonderful! I am proud to own this book. (http://www.amazon.com/Broken-Life-Fight-Forever-Book/product-reviews/1448608554/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1)
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