Shades of Love

About the Book

Shades of Love spins a fictional story of life and prejudice that existed in a small upstate New York university in the turbulent 1960’s. Passion erupts between Beth Farley, a White freshman student and Walter Thompson, a Black college Dean of Students. Their lives twist and turn in a romantic struggle as they try to be together. Their desire causes emotional upheaval in the lives of their families and their friends.

Will Beth abandon her family’s emotional support and wealthy lifestyle or be consumed by her deep desire to fulfill her love? Will Walt risk his family’s scorn, and his own long sacrifice to reach the status he has achieved? Or will the desire he feels for unrestrained rapture fuel his need to take a gamble losing his lifelong goal?

As Beth and Walt struggle with a raging whirlwind seeking change in what threatens to be a color-sensitive world we follow those who are able to place people before prejudice and the result of those who take a much more narrow attitude.

About the Author

Beverly Rushin, a native of central New York, traces her ancestry to the Mohawk Valley at the time of the American Revolution. Bev received her M.S. in Library Science from Syracuse University. Her lifetime passion with books and reading led her to a creative writing group in the city of Port St. Lucie, Florida where she and her husband, Joe, reside.