The world can be a cruel place when you are alone and on your own.  Jenna Bruce has always felt like a stranger in her own family, an unwanted child forced to bounce back and forth between her own home and both her grandparents homes.  When she gets the opportunity to perform in a world renowned ice show for the summer, Jenna is very excited.  Shortly after her arrival in Paris she begins to have second thoughts, have her own parents set her up for failure, or is this just part of a larger, devious plan to be rid of her forever?

Alexander Peterov has a plan.  If his plan goes off without a hitch, he can leave his dreary  life in the U.S.S.R far behind and defect to the U.S.  The pawn in Alexander’s plan is fifteen year old Jenna Bruce.  She is in Paris with a fake passport, pretending to be much older than she really is.  Alexander plans to seduce Jenna and marry her to attain U.S. citizenship, he thinks he has found someone young, naive and easy to manipulate.  He’s about to find out he’s very wrong.

When things don’t move along the way Alexander would like he begins to fall victim to desperation, threatening his very sanity.   Soon his goal has turned into a full blown obsession and it’s only a matter of time before Alexander melts down and goes completely over the edge.

When victim becomes the criminal it seems the whole world is taking sides and the deception just keeps getting deeper and more demented.  When strong willed people face off, neither is going down without a fight, but who will win this battle?

Kingsmuir Press is pleased to announce the release of “Blood, Sweat and Fears” the second book in the Heart of a Phoenix series, by Jean Marie Stanberry, coming to bookstores and E-readers May 1.