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Shadows of the Heart
William R. Green and his wife Yvonne Green teetered on the brink of divorce of their 25 years of marriage, after William confronted Yvonne about her two year affair with her former partner, N.Y.P.D. Lt. Robert Wells.
Yvonne, caste out of her home takes refuge in the arms of Lt. Wells, but during their vacation in the Bahamas she began to have second's thoughts after a visit to see a local witch, and her nervous breakdown on a lonely stretch of beach.
Speaking of witches, Dana didn't have a clue as to why her life had suddenly fallen on hard times. A successful business woman who would like to think that her only problems in her life were getting her deliveries made on time, but she's about to lose her top clients for her business woes. And as if losing tens of thousands of dollars a day wasn't her biggest problem, she could find no peace from her insecure boyfriend, Kevin who forced her to choose between her long term friendship with her former lover, William, or her relationship with him.
Joann would love the opportunity to reclaim her former lover, William, but after getting a beat down from her man Jay-Dee when he found her naked underneath her robe only minutes after William visit. And like from out of the pages of the best romance stories, William return to her side ready to do battle and to comfort her, but while she laid within Williams arms she asked, through the congestion in her chest and her runny nose, "Why does it have to hurt, to love you?" Pain shot straight to his heart, but the pain he felt would never surpass the heart ache and problems hed caused in the lives of his former lovers like Dana, Andrea, Grace, and Joann.
William knew his death was soonat hand, what he didn't know was the when or the how, but Andra could see William being shot to death, was the hit that Lt. Robert Well placed on William, successful?
Andra's physic ability informed her that the serial murderer/rapist planned to make her mother an victim along his path to erase the message, but her husband believe she returned to New York to save the life of her former lover, William. For the last two months, night, after night he listened to her as she spelled out William's demise, and could not wait long enough for it to come to pass.
Mr. Wells could not cope with the sudden rejection of he beloved Yvonne, so he ordered an hit on William, figuring with William out of her life, Yvonne would have no other reason but to join him in matrimony. But he forgot William was a diehard, he was shot twice in the chest six years earlier on a cold night in Brooklyn, and manage to survive curtain death.
His best friend Jake began to unravel the dark secrets of William's past through the compact discs that was given to him by William. The discs that told of William dealings with Andra, Joann, and Dana, the discs that told the secrets behind the killings and untold murders that he never told to a soul. How he never mention the young woman, Grace Blackwell, who sacrificed her life for William 22 years earlier, yet for the last 22 years he often visit her in a Long Island cemetery.
She was young, dark, beautiful and naive. She just graduated for high school seeking love, seeking attention, seeking to start her family and then came William, a young and extremely charming predator who fit the bill. Little did she know loving such a man would cost her, her life, but fortwenty years she held on to him like no other.
Step into the middle of William R. Green world-wind of love and destruction where all he wanted was to reconcile his marriage before he faced his own death. But what he didnt know was that it was his own wife he needed to fear, because she has return to the home from where she was banned and with a decision to make, to kill her husband, or go against the odds of starting a new beginning.
Yvonne, caste out of her home takes refuge in the arms of Lt. Wells, but during their vacation in the Bahamas she began to have second's thoughts after a visit to see a local witch, and her nervous breakdown on a lonely stretch of beach.
Speaking of witches, Dana didn't have a clue as to why her life had suddenly fallen on hard times. A successful business woman who would like to think that her only problems in her life were getting her deliveries made on time, but she's about to lose her top clients for her business woes. And as if losing tens of thousands of dollars a day wasn't her biggest problem, she could find no peace from her insecure boyfriend, Kevin who forced her to choose between her long term friendship with her former lover, William, or her relationship with him.
Joann would love the opportunity to reclaim her former lover, William, but after getting a beat down from her man Jay-Dee when he found her naked underneath her robe only minutes after William visit. And like from out of the pages of the best romance stories, William return to her side ready to do battle and to comfort her, but while she laid within Williams arms she asked, through the congestion in her chest and her runny nose, "Why does it have to hurt, to love you?" Pain shot straight to his heart, but the pain he felt would never surpass the heart ache and problems hed caused in the lives of his former lovers like Dana, Andrea, Grace, and Joann.
William knew his death was soonat hand, what he didn't know was the when or the how, but Andra could see William being shot to death, was the hit that Lt. Robert Well placed on William, successful?
Andra's physic ability informed her that the serial murderer/rapist planned to make her mother an victim along his path to erase the message, but her husband believe she returned to New York to save the life of her former lover, William. For the last two months, night, after night he listened to her as she spelled out William's demise, and could not wait long enough for it to come to pass.
Mr. Wells could not cope with the sudden rejection of he beloved Yvonne, so he ordered an hit on William, figuring with William out of her life, Yvonne would have no other reason but to join him in matrimony. But he forgot William was a diehard, he was shot twice in the chest six years earlier on a cold night in Brooklyn, and manage to survive curtain death.
His best friend Jake began to unravel the dark secrets of William's past through the compact discs that was given to him by William. The discs that told of William dealings with Andra, Joann, and Dana, the discs that told the secrets behind the killings and untold murders that he never told to a soul. How he never mention the young woman, Grace Blackwell, who sacrificed her life for William 22 years earlier, yet for the last 22 years he often visit her in a Long Island cemetery.
She was young, dark, beautiful and naive. She just graduated for high school seeking love, seeking attention, seeking to start her family and then came William, a young and extremely charming predator who fit the bill. Little did she know loving such a man would cost her, her life, but fortwenty years she held on to him like no other.
Step into the middle of William R. Green world-wind of love and destruction where all he wanted was to reconcile his marriage before he faced his own death. But what he didnt know was that it was his own wife he needed to fear, because she has return to the home from where she was banned and with a decision to make, to kill her husband, or go against the odds of starting a new beginning.
216 pages, Paperback
First published August 15, 2014
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July 19, 2009
A homegirl of mines told me to read this book cause she luved it...yo so far I'm luving it too...flipping them pages cause it's fire...holla
This was a damn good book...I'm glad my homegirl told me bout this book or I would've missed out big time yo...
This was a damn good book...I'm glad my homegirl told me bout this book or I would've missed out big time yo...
August 29, 2014
3.5 STARS
Interesting read. I was warned that it had a slow start and I'm glad because the first I'll say about 20% is a little rough. I think it's a problem with information delivery. It's so much at the beginning that the transitioning is not smooth and flowing.
Once you get over the hump the story flows and you just keep wonder, okay...where is he going.
The synopsis is a good highlight of the story so I will not repeat that part. I loved all the characters though. Once the author could settle down into the story and focus on the characters I felt the story's pull.
Yvonne and William are very complexed characters and I see why another book is needed. In this first book, we barely get to scratch the surface of these two or their special kids. But I LOVE the scenes that showed William with his kids. So much of their future is wrapped up in their past that it takes a while to uncover the story so the book ended right when it got really good. I was waiting to see what would happen when Yvonne and William got together. Both of them can't seem to get out of their own way. William it seem is coming around, he's just blind to the end result. These books with people not knowing their true identity can get a little tedious if it drags out to long, hopefully more will be revealed the next book and they can get started on their path.
I'll be honest, I still don't quite understand what is going on but I'm looking forward to seeing how this will play out with William, Yvonne and the rest of the players.
(I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.)
Interesting read. I was warned that it had a slow start and I'm glad because the first I'll say about 20% is a little rough. I think it's a problem with information delivery. It's so much at the beginning that the transitioning is not smooth and flowing.
Once you get over the hump the story flows and you just keep wonder, okay...where is he going.
The synopsis is a good highlight of the story so I will not repeat that part. I loved all the characters though. Once the author could settle down into the story and focus on the characters I felt the story's pull.
Yvonne and William are very complexed characters and I see why another book is needed. In this first book, we barely get to scratch the surface of these two or their special kids. But I LOVE the scenes that showed William with his kids. So much of their future is wrapped up in their past that it takes a while to uncover the story so the book ended right when it got really good. I was waiting to see what would happen when Yvonne and William got together. Both of them can't seem to get out of their own way. William it seem is coming around, he's just blind to the end result. These books with people not knowing their true identity can get a little tedious if it drags out to long, hopefully more will be revealed the next book and they can get started on their path.
I'll be honest, I still don't quite understand what is going on but I'm looking forward to seeing how this will play out with William, Yvonne and the rest of the players.
(I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.)
August 16, 2008
Shadows of the Heart
Step into the middle of William R. Green's world-wind of love and destruction, where all he wanted was to reconcile his marriage before he faced his own death. William and Yvonne have been married for many years. To say that their marriage is on the rocks is putting it mild. Yvonne is tired of all her husband's extramarital affairs and takes matters into her own hands...and abandons her husband and their five children. William has faith that his wife will return to them because of his "powers." Will William be able to reconcile with is wife or will he die of a broken heart?
"Shadows of the Heart" provides the readers with fantasy, romance, and mystical adventures. It was an interesting read. If you are in the mood for romance, drama and a touch of paranormal, this one is for you.
Reviewed by: Nikki
Step into the middle of William R. Green's world-wind of love and destruction, where all he wanted was to reconcile his marriage before he faced his own death. William and Yvonne have been married for many years. To say that their marriage is on the rocks is putting it mild. Yvonne is tired of all her husband's extramarital affairs and takes matters into her own hands...and abandons her husband and their five children. William has faith that his wife will return to them because of his "powers." Will William be able to reconcile with is wife or will he die of a broken heart?
"Shadows of the Heart" provides the readers with fantasy, romance, and mystical adventures. It was an interesting read. If you are in the mood for romance, drama and a touch of paranormal, this one is for you.
Reviewed by: Nikki
February 13, 2017
Although this is not my normal genre, I really enjoyed this book. From witches to spirits to bible verses, this book had a little of everything in it. I am looking forward to reading the sequel because I have to know what happens next to the characters. Kudos to the author for this well written and interesting story!
Kenya E.
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Kenya E.
Soul Sistahs Book Club
August 11, 2009
Shadows of the Heart started off with a lack of intensity but once the story line developed the pages began to flow. I was intrigued with the different aspects of the bible he placed in the book. The whole concept was original with the main character being a angel. It described somethings in revelations and the ending of the world. But not in a scary sense. The romance between the characters were genuine. I was on the edge of my seat wondering what would happen as the story climaxed. Although it wasn't my typical genre I would pick up, I would consider reading another one of his works. I think it was a okay start for Lord Williams
Dee Jamison
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Dee Jamison
AAMBC Reviewer
August 26, 2009
Shadows of the Heart is quite different from other novels I have read. It definetly was interesting, and well written. Lord Williams sure knows how to keep a reader's interest. You'll have a hard time putting the book down just to find out what happens in the end. The only thing is now I can't wait to read the sequel A Stem Full of Thorns to actually find out how it all ends.
December 30, 2008
growing list of to read books
August 30, 2014
I re-read this book. Still loved it and was still a little confuse. Love the Bible aspect of the book. This is definitely a hard book to put down. And you will love all the characters. Great book.
July 23, 2008
Revised: 2nd Edition
December 17, 2013
Wonderful story with characters that you can feel for. Will look for more from this Author.
March 11, 2008
After a strong twenty-five-year run, the marriage of William R. Green and Yvonne now lies on the brink of a messy divorce — this after William finds out about Yvonne’s two-year-affair with her NYPD partner. Cast out of her home, Yvonne takes refuge in the Bahamas, where she meets a witch with an intriguing prophecy. Meanwhile, William contemplates on his dark past, his torturous present, and his hazy future — unmindful that someone is out to kill him. Riveting from beginning to end, Shadows of the Heart is a powerful tale of love, sex, and murder, masterfully penned by rising novelist Lord'Williams.
You must read this book!!
You must read this book!!
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