Half-Hearts Author Marries a Character from Her Book

    HAUULA, HI, June 20, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Kealohilani Wallace is the author of the acclaimed fantasy adventure series, The Half-Hearts Trilogy. Amidst the sword fighting and magical adventures in the story runs a thread of romance. Wallace created her dream man in the character, Jharate Inihma and hoped to someday meet someone like him.

Unbeknownst to Miss Wallace, a young man named, Tukuafu Fotu, (Tuku) who was only her casual friend on facebook, had been in love with her for the past five years.

On April 21st, Tuku caught a one-way flight to Honolulu to pursue the love of his life. On May 1st in a fairytale romantic setting, Tuku proposed to Kealohilani and she accepted.

Wallace says, "Tuku is all of the best of who I wrote Jharate to be, and more. Many of the things Tuku has said to me and done for me were written in Half-Hearts: Redemption, which was not even released when he proposed to me. If it had been, I might have thought he was using it as a playbook! He hadn't even read Half-Hearts Book One when he came here. I'm just amazed!"

Their wedding will be followed by a magical reception at the Polynesian Cultural Center-- right next to the very bridge that is so pivotal in the Half-Hearts Trilogy. This reception will be filmed and portions of it will be featured in the end credits of an upcoming Half-Hearts major motion picture.

It looks like happy endings may be real after all.

Kealohilani Wallace

Kealohilani Wallace, a Kahuku High School Valedictorian, graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Kappa Phi from Brigham Young University Hawaii. Her life took an unexpected turn seven years ago when her dreams of "happily ever after" were shattered two weeks after marrying the man she thought would protect and love her forever began abusing her. Half-Hearts became her therapy for her broken heart after her divorce. The Half-hearts legend she created "explained" why these struggles happened to her and gave her hope again that she would find and marry her other Half-Heart.

During the Advance Release Copy events at the Brigham Young University-Hawaii Bookstore, Half-Hearts became the Bookstore's #1 best-selling book, breaking two prior bookstore records: (1) the total number of books sold by a single author in one day and (2) the total dollar amount of combined merchandise sales by a single individual in one day. The Half-Hearts Trilogy has been turned into 5 movie scripts, which are currently in pre-production. She is also the author of Romeo Killed Juliet and Pride Killed Prejudice.

Polynesian Cultural Center/Half-Hearts Connection

The Polynesian Cultural Center on the island of Oahu is a living bridge between all the islands of Polynesia and the millions of tourists that visit the island of Oahu every year. Miss Wallace wrote into her books and the movie scripts a magical portal between Alamea, a world she created to explain all the wrong things that happen to innocent people on Earth, located under the bridge between the replicas of Tonga and Aotearoa (New Zealand).

Tuku, who works at the Polynesian Cultural Center, pushes a canoe filled with tourists who are lucky enough to have him as their guide. He has worked construction for years and is now a business owner- but his passion is his soon-to-be wife, Kealohilani, and he seeks each day to make her happy and show her how much he loves her.

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