A Golden Moment of Freedom

About the Book

Teresa Moreno is growing up in 1960’s Texas with no ambitions other than to marry and raise a family. But her destiny takes her in a direction she never dreamt of and she finds a purpose to her life beyond anything she could’ve imagined. To realize this purpose she must battle her parents and the culture she was born into, discovering along the way a strength she didn’t know she had. Agonize and triumph with Teresa as she matures into a confident, successful woman on the edges of the most tumultuous times in American history.

About the Author

Elena Torres was born in New Mexico, lived many years in Los Angeles and now resides in Denver. It was during her years in Los Angeles that she fully realized her love of writing and became a published poet. She wrote the first paragraph for this novel in 1984 and tucked it away, thinking she would do something with it later. When she moved to Denver she decided she wanted to write a book and retrieved that paragraph, from which A Golden Moment of Freedom was born.