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I'm Barbra Heavner, author of Angel's Choice.

About the Author
Barbra Heavner fell in love with books at an early age, writing her first novel when she was eleven. She hopes she’s improved since then. Born in Dallas, Texas, her family moved to Amarillo and then to Kansas City, where her sister and two brothers were born. In 1940 they relocated to California. She had three ambitions in life, to be a published author, to be a dress designer, and have two boys and two girls. She studied costume design in California. When she was nineteen she met a sergeant at the Hollywood Palladium. Five weeks later she married him and had fifty-nine years good years with him. Their first home was in upstate Pennsylvania. She was a stay at home mom with their four boys. The two girls never materialized, but boys were fun. In Michigan, she had a local newspaper column. In Pennsylvania she wrote radio commercials. For thirty years she did custom dressmaking at home. She bought home knitting machines, and after retirement she and her husband and youngest son did Arts and Crafts shows with their dolls and machine knitted goods. Through it all her passion for writing never waned. She has moved twenty-two times, and had a fascinating life. At present she and her Downs son are living in Indiana close to son number three. She is firmly convinced that God has given her a perfect life and looks forward to writing for many years to come. Eighty-one, she says, is not yet old.

About my latest book, Angel's Choice

No one remembered whose idea it was to turn the old bordello into a nightclub. Not Tex Whitmore, who ran away from the john killing his mother and ended up in Hill House. Not Leslie Saunders, whose father had squandered the family fortune and who, the other two knew, preferred his own gender. Not even Benjamin Alice. His trust fund bankrolled it. At any rate, The Gardens was all they wanted it to be. The finest club in Kansas City. Fine food, dancing, a floor show, and a chance to go up to the gaming room.

It was Kansas City Mo in the 30s. Jazz Town with gambling, dirty politics, wealth, and abject poverty. There was a depression, but you wouldn’t know it inside The Gardens with all the fancy clothes and jewels. And don’t forget the gossip columnists. They had a ball with Tex and Helen Gwendal, the blond model he’d met in the expensive little dress shop. But that was nothing compared to what happened when her little sister came on the scene. Ben had been looking up girl’s skirts since he was five, but he called this one Angel. Her name was Asia, and she’d been playing the piano since she was four.

It’s passion, secrets, intrigue, and hope. A father who’s an uncle. Helen’s nightmares about something she can’t remember. Angel’s destined for the concert stage, but in love with a the man who wants her every moment. Is it really Angel’s choice to make?