Off Balance, Book 1 of Ballet Theatre Chronicles
By Terez Mertes Rose
Genre: Women’s fiction (with YA crossover), performing arts related
Book Description:
Alice thinks she’s accepted the loss of her ballet career,
injury having forced her to trade in pointe shoes onstage for spreadsheets
upstairs. That is, until the day Alice's boss asks her to befriend Lana, a pretty new
company member he’s got his eye on. Lana represents all Alice has lost, not just as a ballet dancer, but as a
motherless daughter. It’s pain she’s kept hidden, even from herself, as every
good ballet dancer knows to do.
Lana, lonely and unmoored,
desperately needs some help, and her mother, back home, vows eternal support.
But when Lana begins to profit from Alice’s advice and help, her mother’s constant attention
curdles into something more sinister.
Together, both women must
embark on a journey of painful rediscoveries, not just about career
opportunities won and lost, but the mothers they thought they knew.
OFF BALANCE takes the reader
beyond the glitter of the stage to expose the sweat and struggle, amid the
mandate to sustain the illusion at all cost.
Author Bio:
Terez Mertes Rose is a writer
and former ballet dancer whose work has appeared in the Crab Orchard Review,
Women Who Eat (Seal Press), A Woman’s Europe (Travelers’ Tales), the
Philadelphia Inquirer and the San Jose Mercury News. She reviews dance
performances for Bachtrack.com and blogs about ballet and classical music at
The Classical Girl. She makes her home in the Santa Cruz Mountains with her husband, son and too many cats. She loves good food, good
wine, and a good (but not too hard) adult ballet class. She also publishes
under the name Terez Rose.
Author website: www.terezrose.com
Author blog site: www.theclassicalgirl.com
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