A Love Apart, the story of Heloise and Abelard. The perfect gift for your Valentine!

Shirley Roe
Genre: Literary Fiction

Title: A Love Apart

AUTHOR: Rachelle Rogers

A Love Apart is not merely a love story, it is a symphony of color, heartfelt emotion and sensual desire.

Can an eight hundred year old love affair survive the ages to be reborn again? Is it possible for love gone wrong to relive its intense emotion and correct a wrong?

Lily and Julian are strangers but something is pulling them together; something so powerful they cannot resist each other. Lily, bookstore owner and poet is haunted by dreams of another time and Julian, the artist is suddenly obsessed with painting a cathedral, a tortured monk and a long gone lifetime. What could this mean? How are Lily and Julian connected? Eight hundred years before another couple faced separation so intense it was unbearable, could Abelard and Heloise be haunting our modern day couple?

Author, Rachelle Rogers is a writer whose story telling ability and writing style shine in this novel. Her writing draws the reader into the lives of the characters and does not let go even after the last page has been read. Julian’s character reflects the author’s in-depth knowledge of the art world as well as the literary world of heroine, Lily. The research on Abelard and Heloise is thorough and provides a brief look back to a time of unrequited love and inhuman retribution.


Intense, emotional and captivating this reviewer will be watching for more of her work in future. A most entertaining, enlightening and enjoyable read-Bravo Rachelle, this is a winner. Highly recommended by reviewer: Shirley Roe, Allbooks Reviews.

May be purchased directly from the publisher or Amazon.com. Visit authors website: www.rachellerogers.com

Title: A Love Apart

Author: Rachelle Rogers

Publisher: iUniverse

ISBN: 0-595-35091-7
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Shirley Roe

Author and managing editor of Allbooks Reviews, Shirley Roe is also an award winning poet. Shirley's first novel, Dreams and Nightmares: The Martha Whittaker Story was released in 2004 and rereleased in 2011 followed by her second historical fiction, A Call to Faith and Freedom in 2005. The Whittaker Family Reunion was released in 2008. Return to Whittakerville in 2009 and Snow Eagle in 2010.Shirley has been guest speaker at several schools and literary groups and strives to encourage and support new authors. She spends time between her home in Canada and North Florida and travels extensively. Watch for 4 more historical fiction novels soon.

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