A Forever Passion (Arabesque) [Mass Market Paperback]

Angela Winters (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Kimani Press (February 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583140778
• ISBN-13: 978-1583140772
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,016,521 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Angela Winters is the national bestselling author of 17 novels and novellas. Her first novel, ONLY YOU, was published in 1997, followed by her first novella, MAMA DEAR: NEVER SAY NEVER and her first romantic suspense, SWEET SURRENDER. Angela's other titles include A CAPITOL AFFAIR, A CLASS APART, HIGH STAKES, SAVING GRACE, DANGEROUS MEMORIES, SEASON OF LOVE: COMING HOME, LOVE ON THE RUN, THE BUSINESS OF LOVE, KNOW BY HEART, SUDDEN LOVE, A FOREVER PASSION and ISLAND PROMISE.

VIEW PARK is Angela's first mainstream fiction novel and is the first in a series of family sagas featuring the engimatic Chase family. The next View Park novel, MISTAKES WERE MADE, is slated for release in July 2007. Angela is currently at work on the third installment of the View Park series.

A native of Chicago, Angela received her B.S. in Communications from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently pursuing a law degree in her current home of Washington, D.C. She also works as a leadership executive and freelance writer.

She has written for several newspapers, online sites, newsletters and magazines and also runs her own political blog, POLITOPICS. Angela has also written several original and adapted scripts which have placed in contests such as Scriptapalooza, TVWriter.com, American Accolades and TalentScout.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars WE HAVE JUST GOT TO AGREE TO DISAGREE ON THIS ONE!, May 22, 2000

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Betty Holloway (NEWARK, NEW JERSEY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Forever Passion (Arabesque) (Mass Market Paperback)

I read the other five reviews on this one and that was why I went out and brought the book this week-end. About the only thing I agree about with the other reviewers is the essence of the book, which is: Young woman in need of financial assistance to complete her MBA accepts the challenge of doing a prominent family's family tree, with much chagrin to them.

Now when I first began to read this book, I was thrilled. And the more pages I read, the more excited I became. But somewhere down the line, I became frustrated with this author's handling of the story.

Now we know the heroine, Sydney Tanner had issues dating back to her childhood upbringing because we were repeatedly reminded of them in abstact flashbacks to that period in her life. At first, it was ok, but then the flashbacks became distracting.

Sydney got on my very last nerve with her "should I allow myself to fall in love or should I not" attitude. I found myself practically screaming for her to get on with it! It just became too much. I found myself reading super fast to get through with the book due to frustration and not because it did so much for me.

I sense an undercurrent of greatness which is lurking just below the surface of Ms. Winters. When that current erupts, watch out! This woman will be dynamite. But this book didn't display that to me.

Although this book will not be one I will keep to read again, I do not regret buying it nor will it deter me from buying another one of her books. Maybe I'll see that greatness erupt in one of her other books.

Don't get mad at me, I just call them like I see them!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MAJOR DRAMA!, February 24, 2000

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Sean D. Young (Merrillville, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Forever Passion (Arabesque) (Mass Market Paperback)

In A Forever Passion we met Sydney Tanner. A hardworking college student trying to forget the uncaring, crazy people who raised her. Her biological father was in prison. Her mother and her husband were just down right hateful toward her. Sydney decides to take a fellow student (Gabrielle Hart) up on her offer to stay at her home and research her families history to win $500 in one of her college classes. Well Sydney got more than she bargained for. She meets Gabrielle's older brother Marcus. Sparks fly.

This story had so much drama, I couldn't stop turning the pages. Everything was woven together and the characters were something else.

We all know that every family has secrets and people don't like it when something or someone threatens to reveal the family secret. Members of this family took desperate measure to ensure their family secret was not told. It actually backfired, because nothing is a secret for long. If you have not read this book, please go out and buy it. You will be glad you did.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THA BOMB!, March 4, 2000

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"shortydowhoop" - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Forever Passion (Arabesque) (Mass Market Paperback)

yes, this book was the bomb! you gotta pick this one up! with the mix of family secrets, trying to deny the envitable, and not being able to, this book with you have turning in circles! this was worth the money and then some. i could really feel the heroine's pain as she tried tried to grabble with her early days of feeling inadequate because of her mother's and step father's constant verbal abuse.

i feel in love with this book, not only the characters, and the plot, the way things were overcome, in order to move on. highly recommended, if you love loure bussey, you'll love this one by angela winters