Shattered

About the Book

Giselle Gibson, a twenty-four-year-old beautiful, ambitious yet naïve Baltimorean returns to her alma mater, the University of Virginia, to pursue a graduate degree in business. In hot pursuit of the "glamorous life", Giselle has no intentions of distractions or pit stops like love or babies. Nonetheless, life and love have the final say-so when Giselle is captivated by a second year grad student, John Anderson, who possesses all the qualities she ever dreamed of in a man. As their emotionally syncopated relationship deepens, Giselle experiences a mélange of both the joys and pains of love. Her life and self image are inevitably shattered when she uncovers a life-threatening secret John has kept from her. Through unstable emotions and moral dilemmas, the core fabric of Giselle is splintered as she attempts to methodically move through life’s labyrinth on her rite-of-passage into womanhood.

Shattered: The Story of Giselle covers a melange of various social topics spanning from HIV/AIDS, Abortion to Interracial Dating . It also explores themes such as ambition at any cost, crossing the friend and lovers line, sibling rivalry, re-building self-esteem, already made families and becoming born-again.

The series Shattered is a four book compilation about how four twenty-somethings intersect each other´s lives during earth-shattering situations and circumstances. Each person faces his and hers trials and tribulations through their journeys of "becoming". Some of them end in the actualization of their goal, while others end in tragedy.

About the Author

DD Jewell, born in Mississippi and raised in both Georgia and Maryland, is an author, poet and screenplay writer. A graduate from the University of Virginia, Ms. Jewell has a passion for telling the stories of complicated situations and circumstances through inspirational fiction. DD, a full-time homemaker and homeschooling parent, resides in Atlanta, GA with her husband and two sons.