Trilogy of Love

About the Book

Theodore Blais’s love for Delvina Blanchet transcends from childhood to adulthood. Theodore is devastated when Delvina rejects his marriage proposal to become a cloistered nun. He travels the world, with a heavy heart, for the Department of State, Washington, D.C.

On an assignment to Moscow, Russia, at the U.S. Embassy, he meets Natasha Kotov, a woman doctor of Russian origin. They have a clandestine affair for six years. In the year 1939, Theodore Blais and the staff at the U.S. Embassy are ordered out of Moscow because of the ensuing World War II. They are quickly evacuated back to the United States. He leaves Natasha with little notification. He comes home to learn of Delvina’s death at thirty-six years old. She had been a professed nun for fifteen years. He gets permission from the cloister convent to visit Delvina’s grave on her birthday, placing three white roses.

After a period of ten years, Theodore is ordered back to Moscow on a special assignment by the Department of State. He tracks down Natasha and is confronted by an unimaginable circumstance. Theodore’s and Natasha’s future lives are resolved with a permanent solution.

About the Author

Antoinette Marie Hicks attended Boston University, Sargent College of Physical Education, and the University of Rhode Island. She has been writing for therapy and as a hobby since her youth. While taking writing courses, she was encouraged to take her work seriously by a professor from Brown University, who taught Creative Writing. After writing a short story of childhood memories about her three aunts who were nuns and her uncle who was a priest, she embarked on writing her novel, Trilogy of Love. It culminated family history into a narrative expanded to fiction. Mrs. Hicks is a widow residing in Westerly, Rhode Island. She has one daughter who is married.