Dark Depths of Love

Dark Depths of Love

is a tragic story filled with deep love,

passion, and a woman's generous heart

to save her dysfunctional marriage.

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Dr. Heather O'Neal, a woman brought up on deep abiding family love, knows nothing about spousal abuse until she marries corporate tycoon, Anthony Trevor Hampton, a man whose emotions are filtered through layers of childhood abuse and corrupted by a jealous temper laced with on-the-edge rage. His abusive lessons learned in childhood turn Heather’s life into recurring nightmares. He desperately loves Heather and is determined to break the abusive bonds inherited from his father. Heather, however, struggles for normalcy in an unhealthy marriage with a man she has sworn to love always. Untamed passion, undying love, and the journey to trust are just beginning in a heartwarming story of conflict and love.

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EXCERPT

Tony confided his obsession with Heather to Bob, and his fear she might leave him.
“Bob, I’m a damn mess. I love her so much its damn near driving me crazy,” he admitted.
“Tony, I’ve told you for years you need to get help.”
“Yea, well, I got help for Wally and what good did it ever do him. Hell, Bob, I’m not sure those shrinks know any more than I do. How can they help me? They sure as hell can’t change the past.”
“No, they can’t and neither can you, but maybe they can help you learn to live with what happened to you. You carry too much hate around with you in your heart, Tony. You’re still angry with your mother after all these years because she left you. Good God, when are you ever going to forgive and let go of all the venom inside you? I’ve asked you a hundred times over the years to go visit your mother, but you won’t even consider it.”
“Yea, well, who am I supposed to go see her for, her or me? She sure as hell doesn’t deserve it after leaving me behind with a madman to abuse me.”
“Tony, you’re carrying around enough emotional garbage to kill you from toxic waste. Hell, quit thinking about what your old man did, what your mother did. Just think about you and what the hell you want out of life.”
“I have what I want out of life. I’m just so damn afraid I’ll lose it. Worse still, I’m afraid I’ll do some foolish thing to hurt her again.”
“Get help, Tony. Heather doesn’t need anymore of your abuse. She’s been through enough already. You have to get away from her if you can’t control it. If you ever hurt her, I swear I’ll kill you, Tony.”
“Despite my doubts, I did make an appointment with a shrink. I don’t know if he’s any good or not. Hell, I’ll go see a dozen if it’ll do any good. If it weren’t for this damn insane jealousy I feel for Heather, I could be the happiest man alive with her. She’s everything I ever wanted. I’m so obsessed with her I’m like a damn madman. Sometimes I think I’m really going out of my mind.”
“Maybe you should move out for awhile, Tony. Move in with me, stay away from her awhile.”
“I’ve thought about that? But don’t you see how much that would hurt her now that she and I have patched our differences? There’s no easy answer.”
“Maybe you need to tell her how you feel. Share with her what you’ve shared with me.”
“I’ve thought about that, too, but I’d only frighten her. She has enough things to worry about right now without me adding my lot, and there’s the baby to consider. She’s really not all that strong just now.”
“Tony, you’ve got to get yourself together. She needs you with the trial coming up.”
The press finally learned that Heather was back home living with her husband and the son she was supposed to have kidnapped. The news was a blow to the prosecutor who knew they would never convince a jury that she was guilty when the boy’s father didn’t believe she was.
The prosecuting attorney trying the case wanted to drop it, get it dismissed, but as Detective Miller had told Heather, an election was coming up and certain officials could not find an easy way to save face by dropping the case. To drop it would indicate what a bungled mess the uniformed policemen had made at the scene. Their only hope was to press forward and hope a jury might believe her guilt. Numerous people labeled the upcoming trial a travesty of justice.

Books by Jeanette Cooper Mystery/Suspense Writer

Sit back in your recliner by the fireside and read a good book.

A PSYCHIC THRILLER

Brianna Taylor, born a psychic, sets out to solve a thirty-year mystery involving her brother’s dead twin, whose family believes he is not their blood child and was switched at birth. Her search for answers draws her into the lives of three brothers, Preston Marlowe, a prominent businessman, Robert who is retarded, and Donald, a drifter, all under suspicion of murder.

When Brianna falls in love with Preston Marlowe, the eldest brother, wanting to prove his innocence she teams up with Investigator David Sherman and uses her psychic skills to ferret out the identity of the real killer.

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MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE AND SIZZLING ROMANCE

Young and unsuspecting, Rochelle Rathbone flirts with danger when she becomes involved with Tobias Chandler, Miami drug czar, and sets the stage for horrors she never knew existed until after their marriage.
Guarded around the clock in his Miami mansion, she becomes a virtual prisoner. A desire for freedom grows into an obsession, and she devises a successful plan of escape.

With three thousand miles separating Rochelle from her tormentor, life is never sweeter than when she falls in love with Michael Matheson. Nothing but the fear of Tobias coming after her can disrupt her wonderful happiness more than when she opens her door to see Tobias standing there like some evil prodigy out of hell.

She soon realizes there are only two things that will stop Tobias’s domination and pursuit of her—-her death or his.

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HISTORICAL ROMANCE/SUSPENSE SET IN ENGLAND

An unusual love story between a nun and a ship captain, filled with an illustrious romance that turns into a bittersweet adventure.

Beautiful Gabrielle Hampshire is driven by the single-minded goal of discovering who she is after she witnesses a brutal murder, suffers from traumatic-shock amnesia and is abandoned to a convent. Later, secular life presents Gabrielle with dangerous challenges when she crosses paths with the killers, and is rescued by the dashing Jonathan Briercliff who later wins her heart and hand in marriage

Jonathan deceives her with a growing web of lies to keep her from learning the truth about his terrible secret, which could drive her away from him. When Gabrielle finds herself in a life and death battle of wits with Jonathan's vindictive old flame, wanton storms come crashing down around her in the most desperate fight of her life.

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PSYCHOLOGICAL THRLLER


Young, gorgeous Nicole Duval has the world by the tail and an ambition so strong nothing can hamper her dreams—or so she thinks. Then, on the evening after her graduation from law school, everything changes. Sexually assaulted, stabbed, left for dead, and her attacker still on the loose, Nicole’s driving need for justice eventually leads her to taking a position as assistant district attorney.

When Nicole re-establishes a warm friendship from years past with Judge Douglas Anthony Keegan they fall deeply in love. The memory of her grisly attack sparks terrible flashbacks and haunting fears that create intense pressures on their struggling relationship.

With mounting stress, the numerous challenges Nicole and Douglas face together leave a trail of doubts, fears, and conflict which unravel into heartache and despair as they seek to preserve their growing love.

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ETHNIC ROMANCE

Wall of Color was inspired by a young biracial student in Cooper's fifth grade class whose confidences gave Jeanette a look into a child’s pain from the devastation of rejection. It is an ethnic romance novel historically set in New Orleans (1953), and richly unfurls with deep human passions as young Rosemarie Delrio searches for identity in a segregated society.

Wall of Color is a story that will sweep you back in time and touch your humanity with the conflicts in Rosemarie's life as she falls desperately in love with a biracial man while engaged to a white one. While Rosemarie tries to unravel the chaos in her life, the suspense will keep you turning pages with all the battles she must fight.

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HISTORICAL ROMANCE

Conquered Heart is a historical romance set in Anglo Saxon England. This novel was inspired by Jeanette’s love of English history, its special appeal coming from the days of knights and chivalry. The violence, conflicts, and passion of the period offer abundant inspiration.

Conquered Heart is a passionate love story woven with breath-taking suspense. When Edreia becomes the personal prize of Mikkel, captain of the Norman army, she struggles between hate and love as her wanton heart betrays her in a tempest of passion and lust with her captor that will leave a trail of conflicts and unexpected danger from her enemies.

Author Celebrates Success of Wall of Color

Florida author Jeanette Cooper celebrates the success of her book, Wall of Color, set in New Orleans, ISBN: 1-4241-4221-7) published by PublishAmerica.

The book characterizes a young biracial woman’s plight to live within the restrictive boundaries of a society where the rules of segregation allow few exceptions to the all-white, all-black, separate–but-equal divisions upheld by Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896).

When Jeanette taught elementary school, she worked with a few biracial children, who taught her many things about race and ethnicity.

“They were the teachers and I the student,” she said.

She recalled one child, in particular, who gave her a lesson and a glimpse into the agonies of a biracial child’s life. The young fifth-grade student made Jeanette aware of the psychological factors affecting biracial children, by sharing her sense of isolation, loneliness, and lack of identity, as well as her tormented feeling of not belonging to either parent’s race. The same child inspired the writing of Jeanette’s book.

Jeanette states that in the past decade, biracialism and multiracialism have multiplied at a faster pace than literature written about it. “I feel that more literature is needed to establish a cultural heritage for both biracial and multiracial ethnicities,” she said. “My book is for adults, but its relevance to the identity crisis of biracial and multiracial persons is for people of all ages.”

An avid reader of historical novels, Jeanette set her book in 1953. She notes it was a time when the Civil Rights Movement was still in its infancy, and racism, bigotry, and discrimination were on trial (1951) through the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. It became a landmark case in 1954 when the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren unanimously overruled the “separate but equal” doctrine of Plessy v Ferguson.

Hello & Welcome to Jeanette's Blog

Hi everyone,

My name is Jeanette Cooper and I am the author of Wall of Color, Conquered Heart, When Justice is Served, Impending Danger, Desperate Choices, and Violent Visions of Murder. .

A few years after I graduated from high school, married, and gave birth to my son, I eventually decided my brain was deteriorating from lack of food (new knowledge), and yearning for structured learning, I enrolled at the local Junior College, never planning to do more than achieve my Associate of Arts Degree. However, it turned out I hadn't had enough of the classroom yet, and enrolled in the local univeristy to start on my Bachelor's Degree in Education.

Upon graduation, I took a job teaching elementary school, and still having a keen desire to keep learning, I enrolled again at the University to attain my Master's in Elementary Reading Instruction. I taught elementary school for twenty-six years, and then retired.

When the brain sits idle, boredom seeps in like a disease. I discovered retirement wasn't all it was made out to be. I needed something to give me worthwhile purpose in my life.

I learned at an early age the wonder of words on paper, and having always enjoyed writing, I took it up again full time. Needless to say, writing has been a lifesaver for me in my later years. Now, at this time of my life--outside of spending time with my family--nothing gives me greater joy or pleasure than writing.

May anyone reading this who thinks life has become a bore put those thoughts on paper and see where the paper and pen (or computer and word processor) will lead you.

Jeanette Cooper

Wall of Color--By Jeanette Cooper

REVIEWS for WALL OF COLOR

An Ethnic Romance Novel by Jeanette Cooper

ISBN: 1-4241-2441-7
Now online at Amazon and Barnesandnoble.


Reviews:
No one likes to be labeled as different; yet, Rosemarie Delrio was, for a reason over which she had no control, inasmuch as her parents came from different racial backgrounds. If living with such difference is difficult today, imagine what it must have been in 1953! Jeanette Cooper beautifully depicts the period, with all its nuances, to show how Rosemarie found peace with herself and her place in society. Wall of Color is a story that will touch you to the heart.
---Virginia Tolles, author of Tales Along the Way Home http://www.talesalongthewayhome.com/

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Wall of Color is a dramatic story that captures the period it is written in (1953) and characterizes the deep feelings of a young biracial woman's struggle to find acceptance in a segregated society. The plot is filled with conflict and suspense when she falls in love with one man while preparing to marry another. It is definitely a page-turner and a book you will want to read.
---Joyce L. Grissom---

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Jeanette's book, Wall of Color, is intriguing the way it immerses the reader into the feelings of its characters creating a vicarious experience that seems almost real.Wall of Color comes at a needed time and has a message for all people as it speaks to the identity crisis experienced by biracial children and young biracial adults. The novel confirms the idea that no two people think alike in its representation of a wide scenario of feelings by different characters on biracialism and racisim.You are in for a treat reading Wall of Color. The plot is character-driven with just the right touch of conflict to create a suspenseful anticipation to make one want to keep reading to find out what will happen.
---Christina Bell---

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Wall of Color is a classic depicting a period in history for the black race that indirectly bridges the years and speaks to a whole new set of problems dealing with the lives and feelings of young biracial persons today.

---Sandra Sinclair---

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All my life, I think I've had a distrust of anyone with skin that is a different color than my own. However, reading Wall of Color changed me. The book gave me a startling glance into the life and soul of a young biracial girl whose pain was sometimes so intense over the discriminatory remarks toward her that my views and perceptions have totally changed. It is truly a classic and a book well worth anyone reading.

---Wilma Babin---

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