Book Excerpt:
"Two months before her fiftieth birthday, Ameena Mitchell sat in her car, tears racing down her face. It was December, and the past eight months had drained her. The culmination was burying the man she loved, two weeks earlier. Menton was the love of her life, the man she married weeks after she graduated from college. He was twenty-eight to her twenty-one at the time and seemed to love her thoroughly. They accomplished great things in almost twenty-nine years. She realized her dream of a Ph.D. in spiritual counseling, and he, after being a high school principal, got his dream job as a local college president. It was a job he loved and was where he was found slumped over his desk, at fifty-seven, dead of a massive heart attack. She recalled their last conversation.
"Baby, you've got to take better care of you. You spent all this year running interference, trying to heal my family and your patients, and you broke yourself." Menton said, staring down into her face, his eyes filled with love. His words resonated because it was true. She felt broken and wasn't sure how to put herself back together. "Promise me that no matter what happens, you'll focus on you."
She smiled at him and promised to start at fifty. They had gotten a chuckle out of that before he kissed her and headed to work. The next time she saw him, he was lying on a table, cold to her touch.
Drying her face, Ameena got out of her car and made her way inside, wondering if it would be better or different if she had become a mother. She and Menton tried but gave up after fourteen years when Ameena turned thirty-five. By then, they were both successful and living out their dreams. Now it all felt like dreams deferred."
Title: The Year That Changed Her
Author: Angelia Vernon Menchan
Publisher: Honorable MENCHAN Media L.L.C.
Series: The Year Book One
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: Five
Review:
"The First Year That Changed Her" by Angelia Vernon Menchan
My Speculation:
What will happen when this devoted wife, Ameena, finds out about the secrets her husband took to his grave? Well, it wasn't quite a secret because her husband's mother Minnie knew all about this situation. Well, it was after her husband died that Ameena becomes friendly with a cousin that was a treat for her due to she had no other relatives. There were some other cousins, but Sheba became one that really mushes with her so well. For Ameena, will she be able to pick up the pieces of her life and move on when everything comes out about her husband's secrets? Will it be meeting a Dr. Rashad Jackson that will give her just what is needed? Will Ameena be ready to accept this feeling after all of the drama she has gone through from the in-law and some cousins? It was also good seeing Ameena reaching out one
again for another cousin.
To see how 'The Year That Changed Her' will come out, you will just have to pick up this excellent, well-written story and see if there will be a H.E.A. for Ameena and Rashad.
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