A very young American woman leaves home in the late 1970s and starts a new life working in an English theatre-just the right environment to foster heady feelings of romance and heightened reality in her own life. Savouring her independence and enjoying the new adventure, she falls under the spell of a dashing, high-spirited young journalist, who is having trouble figuring out just who he is. Her ardent emotions and his confusion over his sexuality begin to take a toll on her. She finds an expressive outlet with an art form she had loved in earlier years, the dance. This is a story of youth...

Established boundaries are dangerously threatened in this engrossing story of the tender love that unexpectedly springs up between a young New York woman and a Catholic priest. Beatrice's career aspirations and the pair's wrenching emotional struggles highlight deeper institutional problems within the Roman Catholic Church in the 1980s, which, curiously, continue right up to the present day and cry out for a hearing. BEATRICE AFLAME is a highly entertaining, suspenseful, and thought-provoking novel. KIMBERLY LABOR is the author of I DREAM OF YOU STILL: EARLY YEARS IN BATH, a memoir. She holds...

Philippa Feast is the undeniably neurotic yet endearing protagonist in this offbeat story of flirtation, friendship, and love in the university student setting. While driven to obsessive analysis of her relationship with the attractive Ralph Thorn, it is Philippa's dogged work ethic, wry sense of humor, and joie de vivre that see her through not only her year of graduate studies but also the dilemmas that love and work mercilessly cast in her path. Kimberly Labor, educated in France, England, and the USA, is the author also of I DREAM OF YOU STILL: EARLY YEARS IN BATH, a memoir; and BEATRICE...