Uncommon Love

Can a sixty year old man find lasting happiness with a 19 year old student? Will another young woman who has been deeply wounded by a true love of her youth reach out to encompass love from a man whose heritage and religion differ greatly from her own? Can a young woman from the next generation of this family defy convention in the mate selection process and reach for love from a member of her own family? Beverly Rushin has written a work of womens fiction chronicling the Baldwin family of Rochester, New York, which spans four generations from 1892 1995. This saga does not center on events of the world but rather on the unusual love story it reveals. These three main characters find love, lose love and reach out to love again. The reader will laugh at them and with them, experiencing their emotional pain and their sexual passion. Most of all, those reading this book will travel with a family of heart, they will meet a cast of characters they can admire and or despise. Readers will want to follow this family from the prologue to the epilogue.

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. Bev has traveled extensively throughout her life, especially enjoying the people she met on each adventure. She is an avid photographer, golfer, and a patron of the arts, as well as being active and involved in community groups.