Four-Fifths is a voyage to the center of the soul. It’s a story of sharing deep love, loss, happiness, and anger. One man, one woman, and a little girl discover who they are through each other, and cast their embodiment onto the pages reeling in passion for life as they reveal the naked truth of emotion. Perhaps the most uncommon feature of the novel is that it will take readers deep inside their own psyche as the characters unravel the very fabric of love, passion, loss, and anger. Can one lose four-fifths of one’s soul and still have purpose or find happiness? Can a little girl find and return it?
Kyle’s life is the commonplace marriage, divorce, and profession until he realizes that what he views as purpose is shallow and void of the one thing that matters–shared love. He meets Angela and her young daughter Katelyn, and discovers love he never dreamed could be. Their journey brings them face to face with Satan, and they learn of atrocity and anger more intense than life itself, and struggle to survive as his heinous evil rips away four-fifths of their spirits. They learn of hate beyond hate, anger beyond anger, and love beyond love. It results in murder, yet the reader will understand the constitution of retribution and vengeance. Three people learn that losing true-love is to lose four-fifths of one’s soul. Four-Fifths is a story of life, love, and depth of emotions. Readers may feel as Kyle or Angela, or differently, but they will feel.
Four-Fifth’s is truly a unique and wondrous novel, yet it’s by far more than a story with humor, love, and justified murder. This story travels deep inside the core of Kyle Ellis and Angela Collins. It is a novel of powerful emotions and deep insight into love, happiness, sexuality, friendship, and even hate. Few novels have done what this novel has done–pull a person inside a man’s emotions as a woman and a little girl completely recast who he is.
WordWeaving Award of Excellence
Winner of the WordWeaving Award for Excellence, January 5, 2002
Reviewer: editor@wordweaving.com (see more about me) from Atlanta, GA USA
As he follows his usual morning routine, Dr. Kyle Ellis happens to catch a guest artist and photographer on a morning news program. Although he would never meet her, Jade Marshal would change his life. Her description of fleeing the life as human sardine to a cabin's isolation in update New York made Kyle examine his own life. Being packed in with people on the freeway in his Mercedes and working as President of a company on the thirty-fifth floor suddenly feels confined and narrow. In an unrehearsed speech before his staff, he announces an extended leave. That leave will take him to the shores of a lake where he'll meet the woman who transforms his life.
Angela Collins unknowingly enters Thorton Millshire's office with a script in one hand and the missing four-fifths of his life in the other. When his wife died many years before in childbirth, she had taken that part of him with her. She left him with a son, but that son is sadly lacking, and conceals a cruel, malicious streak. An emotional freedom and merges their souls, allowing them to become best friends, advisors, and confidants to each other. Unfortunately, a thirty-five year gap exists between Angela and Thorton. While the age difference doesn't matter to Angela, it matters very much to Thorton. When tragedy strikes, taking Thorton from her, Angela feels like she's lost four-fifths of her soul. She leaves for a place a friend described once on a lake, and meets Kyle.
Not an ordinary love story, FOUR-FIFTHS will leave the reader breathless with the depths of passion and the darkness of pain it presents. At times shocking, always riveting, FOUR-FIFTHS brings together a powerful cast of characters from the ordinary to the extraordinary, from good to evil. Thorton is every woman's dream, but a generation away from sharing a life time with the woman he loves. Angela is wounded, damaged by an act of cruelty beyond measure, finding healing in the midst of agony. Kyle learns the lessons of loving selflessly, and the joy of connection. Minor characters likewise make a memorable impact, as FOUR-FIFTHS explores the pain of loss and joy of living. Winner of the WordWeaving Award of Excellence.
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