Three love stories. Two worlds. Six
characters trying bravely, if not always wisely, to make their romantic
destinies come out right—if not in this lifetime, well, maybe in the next.
Set partly in Santa Barbara and its nearby
wine country, and partly in a spare, secular, and strangely believable version
of the Afterlife, THE ANGELS’ SHARE employs a light touch in treating serious
themes of family damage, second chances, and forgiveness.
Darcy Barnett—a chef on the brink of thirty,
with issues when it comes to trusting men—meets Paul DeFiore, a 34-year old
winemaker with family burdens of his own. They are so right for each other that
it terrifies them both. Hugh Barnett—Darcy’s father, a charming
philanderer who created Darcy’s mistrust in the first place—is determined to
help them get together. Inconveniently, he’s no longer among the living; no
matter, he has two compelling reasons to find a way. He needs to be reconciled
with his daughter before he can rest easy, and he’s hoping, in the Afterlife,
for a rapprochement with Sheila, the wife he cheated on and failed to
appreciate, and who divorced him back on Earth. Along the way, he also meets
Manny Klein, whose tragedy was meeting the love of his life too soon, and who
for half a century has been hoping to see Emma again—somewhere, somehow,
anywhere.
Unabashedly romantic, often funny, THE
ANGELS’ SHARE interweaves the stories of these three sets of lovers. It taps
into the universal yearning to believe that those who were most important in
our lives are never altogether gone; that death is not oblivion, but a state in
which people can finally tell the truth because the truth no longer hurts; and
that love will conquer all--given enough time.
Laurence
Shames has been a New York City taxi driver, lounge singer, furniture mover,
lifeguard, dishwasher, gym teacher, and shoe salesman. Having failed to
distinguish himself in any of those professions, he turned to writing full-time
in 1976 and has not done an honest day’s work since. Visit him on the web at http://laurenceshames.com
http://www.LaurenceShames.com/blog
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