Bianca's Journey

About the Book

Bianca’s Journey is a mainstream fiction with lots of unexpected adventures, steamy romances, sizzling love scenes, plenty of juicy dialogue, and the occasional explicit sexual content. This novel spans the period 1990-1996. Story begins when Bianca, 18, escapes to Los Angeles from a small Chicago town with nothing but a change of clothing and an out-dated writing accouterment: An Olivetti typewriter. Same day of her arrival she clashes with a 14-year-old runaway in MacArthur Park. Brief flashbacks immediately reveal why both girls needed distance from their respective parents. Bianca doesn’t know that the runaway, Carli, had been raped two days prior. Right from the start she is faced with the daunting task of “adopting” this gawky, obnoxious kid. And thus Bianca’s Journey begins…

About the Author

Norma Knowles-Bastien was first published as a teenager in the Daily Chronicle newspaper. She continued to write but chose teaching as her profession. Among Bastien’s published works are: a children's rhyming storybook, a job search guidebook, and two weekly newspaper columns. She has completed advanced novel and screenwriting programs in her efforts to hone her skills as a writer. Bianca’s Journey is this author’s first novel which was originally written as a screenplay and registered/WGA/1990 with the working title “Jacuzzi Nights”. Bastien won an Opus Magnum Award from CCS in Beverly Hills for this project, and a synopsis of her script was featured in Premiere Magazine. Bastien is much traveled, has lived in London and New York, and presently resides in Azusa, California. She has a daughter and two granddaughters under 8.