SAN DIEGO, Dec. 18, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- "Broken Hearts-Bloody Trails" is now available through 1stBooks Library. Award-winning radio/television producer and author Robert Camacho declares life a painfully joyous paradox. Weary questions about life, death, and the hereafter are vibrant as wicked villains, gut-wrenching surprises, and mesmerizing scenes of love and obsession captivate. "Broken Hearts-Bloody Trails," a contemporary collection of eight short stories and a novella transcend the mundane, revitalizing universal topics.
"Dark Lovers" transports readers to exotic Club Vojenga, a sizzling salsa night spot in tropical Martinique. An unsuspecting American husband's and wife's lust for local celebrity dancers -- Marrient, a sultry French woman, and Jonquiere, a handsome Jamaican -- spins out of control.
Camacho's riveting scenes and graceful plots glide like well-choreographed dances. In the novella "She Loved Then Killed," readers follow clues from the journal of Mark Stevens, a womanizing salesperson who mysteriously disappears during a business trip in Arizona. He meets his match in veracious Marissa, an alluring intellectual with a deadly agenda. This who-done-it mystery is extraordinary, pursuing startling discoveries about history, sexuality, human nature and spiritual growth.
Other stories featured in "Broken Hearts-Bloody Trails" are: "Evangelista," a chilling account of her mysterious past mercilessly haunts the future; "Thee," an eerie Halloween tale takes place in a cemetery where past lives return to taunt. Its shocking ending will have feminists cheering - contrasting; "The Garden of Ms. Eve," with a male slant; "Trespasser," could flay and torture but . . . ; "Rain," a lone sentinel's lyrical warning; "Madness," the self portrait; "Fountains," defines the timeless architecture of evil that unmasked on 9/11 and during the Holocaust. Complementing Camacho's enticing and spellbinding collection of prose are stunning illustrations by eighteen-year-old Native American artist Paul Cannon.
Camacho, a marketing consultant representing entertainment projects, musicians, and writers, has successfully placed a variety of material in Hollywood, New York and Nashville. The former disc jockey, musician, journalism graduate and voracious reader loves history, romance, suspense, and the macabre which influence his "visual" writing. Robert plans to release two more books after "Broken Hearts-Bloody Trails." He resides on a 75-year-old mountain estate formerly occupied by pioneer screen actress Mae West, in Valley Center, Calif.
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