REFLECTIONS OF LOVE, CONFLICT AND HOPE

About the Book

An attractive mother and her alluring daughter married handsome and powerful men who can’t resist the seduction of other women. The men can’t seem to avoid the curse of the golden cow, a figurine crafted by their ancestors to show everyone their fortunate life in a gold-mining town. As devoted Roman Catholics, both women traveled on troubled waters and went through a lot of almost-hopeless difficulties. Rosabella Medrano had to marry a Spanish bullfighter before settling down with Santiago de Asis, her true love. Donnabella Vasquez suffered a nearly permanent heartbreak when Fernando De Asis, her betrothed, briefly wed someone else. Though both ladies met perilous journeys throughout their married life, Donnabella’s path became more dangerous when the Imperial Japanese Army occupied the Philippines for three years while her husband joined the clandestine Filipino-American guerrilla band and, later, the liberating allied forces led by the Americans.

About the Author

CARMEN MADERA joined the world in the mining town of Paracale, Camarines Norte, Philippines. She has a degree in Literature, Law and Business Administration. She came to the United States through a scholarship grant to attend a seminar on investment negotiation techniques in 1976 and later worked as the Assistant Commercial Attache in the Philippine Consulate General in New Orleans until 1982. After passing the Louisiana State Bar Exams in 1990, she practiced law in Louisiana from 1991 to 2003. She started writing after she lost everything to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.