Dreamin' About Elvis: a story of love lost (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798278664253)

The untold, true story of the country girl who captured Elvis Presley's heart just before the world claimed the King.

Shreveport, 1954. The world knows him as Elvis Presley, the Memphis Flash. She knows him as the shy, earnest boy who sings only to her.

Before Graceland, before Hollywood, and before the screaming mobs, Elvis Aron Presley was anchored to one place: the stage of the Louisiana Hayride. It was here, in the sultry Louisiana heat, that 16-year-old Velvia Gwendolyn Creamer-known to everyone as Kitty-met the nervous, nineteen-year-old singer whose music fused country, blues, and pure lightning.

Their immediate, electric connection blossomed into a fierce, passionate, and fiercely guarded affair, sustained by stolen moments in dusty hay barns and whispers in the dark. For one brief year, Kitty was his anchor, the one true heart that saw the boy behind the phenomenon.

But their love was standing at a crossroads.

• The Dream: Elvis was plagued by a recurring dream of choosing between the path of global fame and the quiet life of a family man with the girl he loved.
• The Price: Kitty knew she was releasing her prince to his kingdom, understanding she could never follow.
• The Cruelest Cut: Their future was violently severed by the prejudice and decisive intervention of his mother, determined to protect her son's destiny from a "white trash entanglement from Shreveport."

This profound loss defined both of their lives. Velvia Gwendolyn Creamer became a respectable Southern wife, carrying a secret "broken heart" and the profound loneliness of a "Lonely Street" she walked for decades. And for Elvis? His regret manifested in lifelong searching, influencing his marriage to Priscilla, and leaving him forever haunted by the genuine love he sacrificed for his crown.

Based on Velvia's deathbed confession and guarded by sacred relics-a worn hairbrush and a single dark curl of his hair-this is the definitive, humanizing story of the love that shaped the private heart of the King until the very end.

Discover the untold story that proves that even the King of Rock and Roll had to pay the ultimate price for his crown.