The Darkness of the Sun - Paperback

by Stan St Clair (Author), Kent Hesselbein (Illustrator), Rhonda St Clair (Author)

Bella Fontaine has dreamed of witnessing the spectacle of a total eclipse of the sun for many years. In July of 2010, she has the opportunity to travel to Easter Island in the Polynesian triangle off the coast of Chile go there and fulfill her dream. While gazing into the heavens, she thinks how her life has been like the darkness of the sun during the eclipse, and her thoughts take her back. As a child she endured an abusive relationship with her mother. Her father, a prosperous doctor in McMinnville, Tennessee, leaves home and is never heard from. When her mother dies suddenly she feels all alone. As a young woman she is raped, and becomes pregnant. Unwilling to have an abortion, she heeds the advise of her dying grandmother and gives up her son for adoption. Encouraged and endowed by her Christian grandmother, she attends college in Knoxville and becomes a nurse to use her talents to help others. But the shadows of her abuse cover her like a dark quilt. Her fondest dream would be to find her estranged father. And what happened to her son? Read this amazing story of grit and resolve and discover Bella's destiny.

Author Biography

Rhonda St.Clair is a graduate of Georgia Career Academy, and is the previous owner of two business establishments. She has worked in the fields of medicine as well as dealing in the service industry with women. At one time she also worked as a proofreader with a newspaper. Rhonda and her husband, Stan, live in Mc Minnville, Tennessee, where she was born and reared, and are active members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Rhonda has one daughter and two grandchildren as well as stepchildren and grandchildren.