SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 5, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The authority of love is truly boundless, surpassing the ravages of war, changing tides of time and even the permanence of death as shown in Joy Hart's Shanghai Shadows, her latest book released through Xlibris. It is a persuasively tender story of lost, found, and lasting love.

Shanghai Shadows follows the life and loves of Alex Reinherz, an accomplished Marine who ships off to Shanghai for military duty. On a chance occurrence, one of his Marine pals asks him to girl-sit a very beautiful Shanghai-born Russian named Ludmilla before he goes Stateside. The attraction was obvious and instantaneous. After a time of happy companionship, 'Milla becomes pregnant.

But as the tides of time turn to war, Alex is obliged to obey his orders and leaves Shanghai, 'Milla and their unborn child. They each survive their own versions of the War - Alex in combat and 'Milla in an intern camp - holding on to spiritual faith and their love. The fates add one more cruel twist, manipulating Alex with an old secret, which prevents him from finding 'Milla. As 'Milla endures her life in a Siberian gulag, she persists with their love as her anchor, making sure she tells their daughter to find him and, ``Don't give up the ship.''

Decades pass, but Alex and 'Milla hold on to the life raft of their love amid the sea of their own separate but equally lonely troubles. Will their love see them through? Shanghai Shadows explores the depths of love's ability to conquer and persist over and above the most shackling obstacles. For more information, log on to http://www.Xlibris.com.

About the Author

A published freelance writer since 1989, Joy Hart has three non-fiction books (through Schiffer Publishing) to her credit: Wonderful Raggedy Anns, The Bear Made Me Buy It (Advertising Bears), and Bears With An Attitude.

                  Shanghai Shadows * by Joy Hart
                  Publication Date: July 28, 2008
       Trade Paperback; $19.99; 257 pages; 978-1-4363-3794-6

To request a complimentary paperback review copy, contact the publisher at (888) 795-4274 x. 7479. Tear sheets may be sent by regular or electronic mail to Marketing Services. To purchase copies of the book for resale, please fax Xlibris at (610) 915-0294 or call (888) 795-4274 x. 7876.

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