Writing and Healing
Love the stories of everyone around you.
Love life. Live love.
Cynthia Rosi has been a professional writer since graduating
from University in
As a newbie writer she reported for The Advertiser series of
newspapers in
A stint in PR followed before Cynthia turned to her true
passion: novels. By hosting a fundraising dinner as Chairwoman of the Women Writer's Network, she pitched her first novel Motherhunt to a Headline editor and landed a two-book deal, producing her second novel Butterfly Eyes soon after.
Two books, two babies, and a string of short-stories later, Droemer
translated Motherhunt into German, and Cynthia moved with her family and husband to Ohio.
After getting her feet under the table in her new home. Cynthia won the Ohio Writer's Contest, First Place in the short
story category for Salmon in 2007 and the Christian Science Monitor
published her essay, Tuscan Roots (4/08).
Cynthia wrote, produced and edited 21 episodes of The
Conscious Voices Program for WCRS-FM during 2007/08, and is currently selling
her third novel.
Tuscan Roots
Short North Gazette (profile on WCRS where Cynthia Rosi is featured.)
When Astor Cartwright receives a phonecall from her mother, the last thing she expects to hear is that her brother Stirling is dead. Nothing he's ever done in the past has surprised Astor - even joining a 'tribe' of people who think they're re-incarnated American Indians - but this is a shock.
As Astor drives to Stirling's funeral, she thinks she knows who she'll meet there. A bunch of loonies, society's misfits. When she arrives, the people go beyond even her expectations. Stirling has left behind two 'wives' and a beautiful baby daughter.
But the more Astor learns about Stirling's death, the more she knows that someone is not telling the truth.
Patrick and Charlene Hunter live in constant fear of their father's violent rages. When teenage Patrick becomes plagued by nightmares involving his mother, he is driven to desperate measures. For his own peace of mind and for Charlene's sake, he must fly from Seattle to London and solve the mystery surrounding their mother's death.
Arriving at his old home in Finchley, Patrick is drawn to Kitsy, a defiant single mother living in his former house. Together they embark on a journey of emotional intensity, sexual awakening and chilling discovery as they probe into a terrifying past filled with murder, religious deceit and betrayal.
