Chance Encounter

About the Book

“CHANCE ENCOUNTER” is a truly compelling, bitter-sweet and sensuous love story. Daniel and Simone - both had experienced deeply traumatic events in their early years - meet under unusual circumstances. They forge a close friendship and fall in love. Daniel - who is denied a divorce – and Simone live in an illicit union, defying the strict morals of the unforgiving 1950s. Their love triumphs over all obstacles until a grievous misunderstanding leads to Simone´s leaving Daniel. He suffers a breakdown, resorts to violenceagainst his wife and spends time in a mental institution. Freed from the demons of his past by a sympathetic psychiatrist, Daniel goes in search of Simone.

About the Author

Mina Scheller-Wildfeuer was born in Galicia (West Ukraine). As a refugee , she came to Germany with her parents and eventually received a teacher's degree there . She also studied psychology. Consequently -- with that knowledge of human behavior and a good novelist's instinct of details -- she is able to feature intriguing and complex personalities in her stories. Mina immigrated to the United States as a young adult. She married, had five children and lives with her husband in California.