New York City Theater Sets the Stage for RomanceShe went looking for fame, and found her true self, instead. New York City, 1941. Alice “Al” Huffman and her childhood best friends are fresh off the potato farms of Long Island and bound for Broadway. Al’s plans for stage success are abruptly put on hold when she’s told she has no talent. As she gets a job to pay for acting classes, Al settles into a normal life with her friends and a boyfriend. It all changes when she meets Juliana…A singer on the brink of stardom, Juliana is everything Al isn’t: glamorous, talented, and queer. The farm girl is quickly enthralled, experiencing thoughts and feelings she never realized were possible. Al finds herself slipping between two worlds: the gay underground and the “normal” world of her childhood friends. It’s a balancing act she can handle until war breaks out, changing everything all over again…When her two worlds collide, her life begins coming apart. In a city bursting with change, can Alice find what she was looking for all along?Juliana: Books 1 & 2: 1941-1944 is a captivating work of LGBT historical romance. If you like extensively researched settings, spell-binding storytelling, and characters you can’t help but fall for, then you’ll love the first book in award-winning playwright Vanda’s new Juliana series. Buy Juliana to discover a sexy, funny, and deadly serious world today! Fiction / Romance / Historical / 20th Century