Skip to main content

Roxanne Veletzos

Biography

Roxanne Veletzos

Roxanne Veletzos was born in Bucharest, Romania, and moved to California with her family as a young teen. Already fluent in English and French, she began writing short stories about growing up in her native Eastern Europe, at first as a cathartic experience as she transitioned to a new culture. With a bachelor’s degree in journalism, she has worked as an editor, content writer, and marketing manager for a number of Fortune 500 companies. Her debut novel, THE GIRL THEY LEFT BEHIND, is an international bestseller and has been published in multiple languages. Roxanne lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Roxanne Veletzos

Books by Roxanne Veletzos

When the Summer Was Ours
by Roxanne Veletzos - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

Hungary, 1943: As war encroaches on the country’s borders, willful young Eva César arrives in the idyllic town of Sopron to spend her last summer as a single woman on her aristocratic family’s estate. Longing for freedom from her domineering father, she counts the days to her upcoming nuptials to a kind and dedicated Red Cross doctor. But Eva’s life changes when she meets Aleandro, a charming and passionate Romani fiddler and artist. With time and profound class differences against them, Eva and Aleandro still fall deeply in love --- only to be separated by a brutal act of hatred. As each are swept into the tides of war, they try to forget their romance. Yet the haunting memory of that summer will reshape their destinies and lead to decisions that are felt through generations.