Suanne Schafer

Passion & Paint (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Formerly A Different Kind of Fire.

Ruby Schmidt has the talent, the drive, even the guts to enroll in art school, leaving behind her childhood home and the beau she always expected to marry. Her life at the Academy seems heavenly at first, but she soon learns that societal norms in the East are as restrictive as those back home in West Texas. Rebelling against the insipid imagery woman are expected to produce, Ruby embraces bohemian life. Her burgeoning sexuality drives her into a life-long love affair with another woman and into the arms of an Italian baron. With the Panic of 1893, the nation spirals into a depression, and Ruby's career takes a similar downward trajectory. After thinking she could have it all, Ruby, now pregnant and broke, returns to Texas rather than join the queues at the neighborhood soup kitchen. She discovers her life back home is as challenging as that in Philadelphia.

Passion & Paint depicts one woman's battle to balance husband, family, career, and ambition. Torn between her childhood sweetheart, her forbidden passion for another woman, the nobleman she had to marry, and becoming a renowned painter, Ruby's choices mold her in ways she could never have foreseen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Suanne Schafer
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798227026347
• Artikelnr.: 72353828

Autorenporträt

Suanne Schafer is a retired family-practice physician whose pioneer ancestors and world travels fuel her imagination. She originally planned to write romances, but either as a consequence of a series of failed relationships or a genetic distrust of happily-ever-after, her heroines are strong women who battle tough environments and intersect with men who might-or might not-love them. Suanne completed the Stanford University Creative Writing Certificate program. Her short works have been featured in print and online magazines and anthologies. Her debut women's fiction novel, A Different Kind of Fire, now entitled Passion & Paint, explores the life of Ruby Schmidt, a nineteenth-century artist who first escapes and then returns to West Texas. Suanne's second novel, Hunting the Devil, explores the heartbreak and healing of an American physician caught up in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.