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    Balance
    Balance
    Balance
    Ebook74 pages53 minutes

    Balance

    By Faline Adolph

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    In this suspense drama we take a look at a young dynamic, powerful and successful woman who is suddenly having
    trouble sleeping.
    Volnavia Lance is living the Great American Dream. She runs the most dynamic and prestigious Architect Company
    in the world, Balance Architects. Coming to terms with her inability to sleep, Volnavia seeks help from a well-known
    therapist Dr. Barnard Hilliard. As Dr. Hilliard soon realizes Volnavias routine sleep disorder isnt routine at all and fi nds
    himself dealing with the most disturbing bone chilling psychological events of his professional career.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateSep 8, 2011
    ISBN9781426989124
    Balance
    Author

    Faline Adolph

    New and upcoming author and CEO of Noble Wolf Enterprise, Publishing, and Entertainment is originally from Los Angeles, California. She currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky with her three children. Faline is working on " Out of Balance: The Sequel", a relationship novel, "Check Please!", "The Grass... is Greener" and "Writers Block", a televised game show where contestants start disappearing after being written off.

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      Balance - Faline Adolph

      © Copyright 2011 Faline Adolph.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      Printed in the United States of America.

      isbn:

      978-1-4269-8911-7 (sc)

      isbn:

      978-1-4269-8912-4 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011913947

      Trafford rev. 08/26/2011

      missing image file www.trafford.com

      North America & international

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      phone: 250 383 6864 fax: 812 355 4082

      Contents

      Idealized

      Delusional

      Traumatized

      Co-Dependent

      Pathological

      Narcissist

      Passive-Aggressive

      Empowerment

      Unbalanced

      Therapist

      (The-Rape-ist)

      Bipolar

      Emotional Scars

      Epilogue

      "If the pursuit of Happiness is to achieve The Great American dream..

      What if you already have it…?

      What does the American dream become

      to you…? And what are you willing to do to keep it…?

      In life to maintain perfection you need Balance"

      Volnavia Lance has money, power & fame. She’s CEO of the most sought after Architectural Company in the world, BALANCE ARCHITECTS.

      She’s known for building dreams and granting wishes to clients who desire the most unusual, eye catching versatile buildings all over the world.

      Her clients love and adore her. they range from National and Internationally wealthy to even larger world wide conglomerates.

      Volnavia seems perfect in every way. She’s beautiful, educated, talented, world renowned, and dedicated.

      Her life is perfect… or is it?

      BALANCE

      Idealized

      At the age of five, Volnavia Lance sits on her knees in her bedroom holding the right side of her face trying to hold back the tears from the pain of being struck open handed by her father for mispronouncing a word in her work book. Her face burning and swelling she finds a way to sound out the word P.A.T.R.I.C.I.A., searching her father’s face for a sign of acceptance. Her father, standing over her reaching for his belt and swearing at her to pronounce the word, daring her to fuck it up again!

      Order and fear was the way of life in Volnavia’s home. Her father, controlling and violent. Her mother, submissive, withdrawn. Volnavia confused and sad, but willing to appease everyone. (Happy little family)

      If being perfect is what is needed to keep peace in her home, she would make it happen. Volnavia was introduced to this world by way of pain, disappointment, and hardship. But in life to be successful, you have to have perfect BALANCE.

      Sobbing uncontrollably, Volnavia tries to pronounce the word, Patricia from her kindergarten work book.

      Nervously reading from her book, The big dog ran to Pa– at. Sobbing, holding her face and wiping the tears from her eyes while stalling searching her mind for the correct pronunciation, her heart racing and pounding inside her tiny chest, Volnavia realized she was too afraid to pronounce her own name, let alone this word she’s never seen before.

      Victor Oliver Lance was tall and dark. He had a mustache she loved to touch when she set sat on his lap. His voice was strong, deep, and commanding. He was funny when he called her pet names he would make up on the spot, like Vagabond, or Volie Polie. It was the way he said it that let her know he was in a good mood and when daddy was in a good mood everyone was happy. He would show her off when they went out as a family. When he carried her in his arms, she felt like royalty, head straight, shoulders back, that since of pride came naturally to her. No other little girl in the world had a father like she did. Whatever she wanted she got. Family and friends spoiled her with gifts, money, and praise. Grandparents would take her for overnight visits and bring her back with bags of clothes and new toys. It wasn’t until her first memory of him exploding that she recalled fearing him.

      When Victor lost his job he started losing his mind. He started yelling and screaming at her mother all the time, about why the house wasn’t clean. Why she wasn’t cooking meals he wanted to eat. Why the laundry wasn’t white enough. Anything would set him off. His voice was so strong it would cut right through you like a knife. It made her feel like the house would crumble and fall right on top of her. His words were so hateful, and hurtful, they would make her mother cry.

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