

It is very easy to identify with them.ĭonna Fasano is a talented author." ~Elizabeth M. This book is well written, theĬharacters are real, everyday folks. So well worth looking into, don't you think?įrom reading excerpts to my husband and friends. Made the Kindle Top 10 List, the Nook Top 10 List, and the iBooks Top 10 List. Her books have sold nearly 4 millionĬopies worldwide and have been published in two dozen languages. They both get married, and Dean has two lovely kids, but the sun never sets on a day that they don't think of one another.Fasano is a three time winner of the HOLT Medallion, a CataRomance ReviewersĬhoice Award winner for Best Single Title, a Desert Rose Golden Quill Awardįinalist, and a Golden Heart finalist.

After that the years slip away and the two lovers push on with their lives the best they can. And when Dean's better judgement lapses, just one time, the mistake he makes causes Theresa to be pulled from his arms. Unfortunately, though, fate is an unpredictable force. Together they manage to beat back all the negativity that keeps coming at them, and they have the time of their lives. From there things only get better.įor the next year the youths, who've always been knocked around, bring the light of hope into each other's hearts. It seems fate is finally in a benevolent mood when the free-spirited Dean and downright gorgeous Theresa meet at a high school dance. And as if all that isn't enough to deal with, Dean's mother is a paranoid schizophrenic and Theresa's is a hardcore alcoholic.īut on a cold, damp night in the spring of 1967, things suddenly look up for the underprivileged kids. Dean's father is alive, but he has a mean temper and a nasty tongue that constantly cuts into the heart of his family. Theresa's father was shot dead at a bank robbery a few years ago. They both come from dysfunctional families at the bottom rungs of the social ladder, where happiness never comes easy. New York teenagers Dean Cassidy and Theresa Wayman live in a world of hard concrete, dark bricks and tough breaks.

Praised as a monumental romance, a Gone with the Wind for the 20th Century, Beyond Nostalgia is an unforgettable love story that shows us what it is like to love and be loved so intensely that life can never be the same again.
