“It’s a gritty book set during the end of the Reagan years when there was a lot of fear about HIV/AIDS and a lot of hate.” In 1988, when the story begins, HIV/AIDS was the eight leading cause of death among women 25 to 44 years old in the United States. “It’s a very different book from any I’ve written before and anybody who doesn’t like strong language shouldn’t read it, but I wanted to explore the issues raised in the book such as HIV/AIDS, drug addiction, women in prison, and so on,” says Ms. People have been taking things from Onita all her life but now, Onita fights back, and changes her life forever.” Her dealer, Moon Dog, abducts Hani and, by the time Onita finds out, her baby is dead. But Onita is an addict who doesn't always pay her bills. “She gets a second chance at ‘normal.’”Īccording to the Amazon blurb, “Onita Saunders is a streetwalker in the South Bronx who lives only for her baby son, Hani, and for her next hit. “ The Water of Sunlight is about a young woman who endures a hard life and becomes a drug addict but, when she goes to prison, she turns her life around,” says Ms. Huge congrats to my friend and former blogging col.ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - VI author, Eugenia O’Neal’s second book, The Water of Sunlight was published earlier this week and is now available on Amazon and Smashwords, two leading online booksellers.Authors (24) awards (7) birthdays (6) blog friends (6) blog groups writing groups critique groups (4) blogging (17) book covers (1) books on writing (2) Books on writing (1) Café au Lait (1) Café au Lait launch (2) Caribbean (7) Christmas (5) Contests (1) Contracts (5) culture and society (22) Dorchester (2) e-books (2) editing (8) editors (3) erotica (3) Favourite things (5) First books (9) friends (3) garden love (3) gardening (3) genres (2) giveaways (12) going indie (2) holidays (5) humour (15) hunk of the month (15) inspiration (8) interviews (16) language (7) Liane Spicer (9) literary agents (3) marketing and promo (3) memes and trivia (22) Montlake Romance (1) motivation (5) movies (4) Muses (1) Myths (2) nature in all its glory (25) new release (2) Novel Spaces (9) pandemic (1) plants and flowers (4) Poet of the month (5) procrastination (3) Publishing (33) Reading right now (11) rejection (2) reviews (9) romance (2) romance genre (2) romance novel (1) romance trilogy (1) romantic suspense (1) second book (4) self-publishing (1) Sex scenes (2) short stories (2) social media (3) Tech things (6) Trinidad (40) Welcome (1) Whitney Houston (1) writer of the month (5) writer's block (2) writer's life (66) Writers Beware (1) Writers-poets-books (73) writing craft (10) writing quotes (1) writing spaces writing tools (6)

Jessamine by Eugenia O'Neal