Debut novel explodes the trials and tribulations of modern life and love
Not available at Amazon or bookstores
Moondance is available for purchase exclusively from this site (or in person if you live in Toronto) and is not available at Amazon or in bookstores. Having said that, we treasure our readers and take good care of them! More details at Buy Moondance.
In 1996, Toronto author Karen M. Black began to write in a curious, unstructured wave.
What she wrote scared her so much, that she abandoned her writing for five years. What she didn't know was that she had just written the climax of her debut novel Moondance, which would be published more than ten years later.
Moondance is an award-winning, ground-breaking coming of age tale written for anyone who’s had their heart broken by life or love, and has the curiosity and the courage to ask why.
Today, Karen's early words are preserved virtually uncut in a series of riveting scenes that are literally keeping readers up at night.
What's it like reading Moondance?
Read a review of Moondance by Sarah Kotz, at Vanity and Insanity blog. Sarah's also got some other great thoughts and perspectives about life, dating and fashion as well.
Moondance wins again
We're delighted to share the awards Moondance has won since its publication. Tickled and humbled, in fact!
- Bronze - 2009 IPPY awards - Visionary fiction
- Finalist - 2009 Foreward Magazine's Book of the Year - Romance
- Winner - 2008 National Best Book Awards (Los Angeles) - Visionary fiction
- Finalist (two categories) - 2008 National Best Book Awards (Los Angeles) - Women's fiction, Chick lit
- 3rd place GRAND PRIZE - 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards (Chelsea, Michigan) - Fiction
- Winner - 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards (Chelsea, Michigan) - New Age fiction
- Winner - 2008 National Indie Excellence awards (Hollywood) - Visionary fiction
- Finalist - 2008 National Indie Excellence awards (Hollywood) - New fiction
Are you ready?
Are you ready? is a question that’s asked of Moondance’s main character Althea… whose answer takes her on the wild ride that changes her life.
Is Moondance fantasy? Psychological thriller? Romance? Magical realism? Sort of. But not really. Honestly, it may be in a category all it’s own. Readers say it’s hard to put down and it stays with you long after it’s over.
Packed with surprising, intelligent perspectives on life's most perplexing questions, Moondance is modern and slightly edgy, exploring universal themes of soulmates, karma and past life love. It's not only the ideas Moondance explores that make it unique, but how it explores them. Intelligently. At a compulsively readable pace.
Grounded in the real world and written with short, readable chapters that grab you in the first five pages and won't let go, Moondance's pages will fly, keep you riveted and leave you thinking about your own life long after it's over.
Do you believe in reincarnation?
What is the meaning of karma and reincarnation? Is there survival after death? What is a soulmate? What if you could travel back in time and undo the things you regret? What if you could re-claim a past life love you've lost?
Open your mind. Open your heart. Add this award-winning, sexy, addictively entertaining novel to your bookshelf today. Buy Moondance
Raw and gutsy
"Raw human emotion where desire collides with fear, fantasy interrupts, challenges abound and hope is restored. For the avid imagination and gutsy risk-taker. A ride for explorers of life's mysteries untold." Linda Plater, Writer and Media Consultant, age 43 More
Plot summary
MBA student Althea Brecht's life changes overnight when she discovers her boyfriend's betrayal. Devastated, she focuses on the future. Yet the more she does, the more her past threatens to engulf her.
Desperate to forget, she falls into the arms of a lover whose desire for control borders on sexual obsession. In a chance encounter, she meets Michael Foster, a man with secrets of his own. Later, she's plagued by visions of a seductive green-eyed man who claims to be able to unlock her past and change her future.
Wondering about her own sanity, Althea seeks answers in chillingly accurate tarot card readings and in the ancient secrets of karmic astrology. In dreams, she receives unsettling messages from her step-father Albert who died when she was a child.
When tragedy strikes, Althea loses her grip on reality and everything she believes about life, her family and herself is in doubt. She's terrified to face what's happening to her. Yet she knows if she doesn't, she risks losing everything.
Addictive, intelligent and unabashedly erotic, Moondance explores life, love, the nature of reality and plunges the reader full-force into the wake of an astonishing climax. Buy Moondance
We love book clubs
Know a book club that would like Moondance? Send them this site! Book clubs receive a special price on Moondance. Plus Karen's added some throught-provoking reflection questions to get you started.
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