title: Teacup: A Love Story
author: Baca, Sheryl
description: As a child, Shell experiences first love while dreaming about a pop star idolized by her siblings. In her teens, she learns about real love through a variety of relationships and life-altering events. But it isnat until Shell is a single mother entering her middle years, overwhelmed with the responsibilities and the conflicts of being a career woman and parent, that her hauntingly familiar childhood dreams begin to show their true meaning. Ze, the pop star in Shellas dreams, has patiently waited his whole life to find the muse whose ethereal image has been his inspiration since before the inception of his career. Impatient now that he is entering the late autumn of his life, he becomes more determined to finally find her. Love, synergy, dreams, and fate culminate in a journey to catapult these two star-crossed loves upon the same path, one more time.