Through The Roses

by Alma Vazquez Garcia

"Ive kissed too many boys," Eliza Smith says when asked why she's been exiled to off-season Miami. It is 1925. The war has been over for more than half a decade, and Victorian America is quickly changing. Too quickly. Where Eliza's mother lived in a world where a chaste kiss was first given upon betrothal, Eliza lives in a world where women are giving away even up to their very bodies indiscriminately. But the human heart does not evolve as quickly as the times, if the human heart was designed to evolve into baseness at all. What happens when a harsh world collides with innocent hearts? A story of brokenness, betrayal, and the unconditional love that redeems, Through the Roses will take you through the lowest lows to leave you on the highest heights. A story of yesterday's generation, yet timely enough for today's MTV Generation.

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First published November 17, 2004