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This novel is for anyone that appreciates the importance of building close emotional ties and expressing feelings to loved ones before it is too late.
Christian Erickson is the perfect man: sincere, handsome, intelligent, and passionate. Maiya Hightower has searched for a man like him throughout her entire life. Unfortunately, when she finally finds Christian he is already taken. Maiya reluctantly settles for a close friendship with Christian and the two of them become inseparable. In the midst of turmoil in her personal life, Maiya gives birth to a beautiful daughter, Angelina, but fears that Angelina will make the same mistakes in her life that she did. Thus, she leads Angelina to believe that a man she has never shared one single act of intimacy with is her biological father. She wants Angelina to grow up with high expectations so she places Christian, who is no longer a part of her life, onto a well-deserved pedestal and convinces Angelina that he is the role model that any young man that comes into her life must follow.
Angelina becomes immersed in Christian's world through his words: books, magazine articles, and personal letters written to her mother. Even though she has never met him, she is his daughter by spirit. Maiya continues this farce for sixteen years with the help of her best friend and mother who oppose the situation but both have been drawn into the lies to the point where they can't get out of them. But like all things in life, whatever you do in the dark eventually comes into the light, and Maiya is faced with the consequences of her actions. The only question is will her relationship with her daughter survive. An emotional rollercoaster, Daughter by Spirit will likely move you to tears.
—Zane, author of Addicted, Shame on it All, and The Sex Chronicles
Anonymous
Posted November 2, 2001
Christian was the type of man every woman seeks: kind, loving, compassionate and sexy as all get out. Maiya knew a good thing when she saw it. Unfortunately, after a bit of a struggle, so did Tanya. Maiya was also too good of a friend to try to take what she knew could never be hers. However, that didn't stop her from raising her daughter to believe that a man that she had never been intimate h was her father. Her intentions were good: that was the point in letting her daughter know what a heinous man her real father was when she had such a sterling example of manhood to use instead. And that is what she did. Angelina grows up strong, confident, certain of her love for a man she has never met. But we all know that lies told in the dark eventually come to light. And the best intentions mean nothing when the person they were meant to protect ends up hurt anyway. When Angelina eventually learns the truth, will she be able to handle it? And will she ever trust her mother again, even though she has not always been so forthright herself? V. Anthony Rivers writes a story that we don't usually get the pleasure of reading. A story that shows a man who values friendship, love and positive living, without apology. He also shows how we must be careful how we live our lives because you never know how much what you say and do can influence someone else's life. Additionally, he teaches the meaning of true, lasting, heartfelt friendship. I would highly recommend this book to all who want to experience a different type of read from the perspective of a truly sensitive man!
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Overview
This novel is for anyone that appreciates the importance of building close emotional ties and expressing feelings to loved ones before it is too late.
Christian Erickson is the perfect man: sincere, handsome, intelligent, and passionate. Maiya Hightower has searched for a man like him throughout her entire life. Unfortunately, when she finally finds Christian he is already taken. Maiya reluctantly settles for a close friendship with Christian and the two of them become ...