Colleen L Donnelly
GENRE: Historical Romance
BLURB:
Jim Turner writes crime but doesn’t live it. He respects his grandfather’s tales of heroes but doesn’t believe them. When his failing grandfather sends him to a remote peninsula to write the end of his own heroic love story, Jim includes a war criminal interview to maintain his edge.
Chastity is an anomaly, a misfit in pre-WWII culture as well as in Jim’s life. Her spritely charm and endearing features turn Jim’s world upside down, especially when she reveals his grandfather’s peninsula as the site of her upcoming wedding.
Do good journalists flee when their interviewee is murdered? Do heroes write fiancés out of another’s story and themselves in? “The End” become the hardest words for Jim to write.
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EXCERPT:
Author's Note: Boy meets Girl. When the cat’s away…
“What woman?” Chastity leaned over the railing and looked down with a frown. “I didn’t see anyone, and I still don’t.”
I scrambled to my feet. From this vantage point I searched every direction but saw no one along the sidewalks or standing in front of one of the nearby houses. I knew I hadn’t imagined her. Grove was small. In a matter of time, I would run into the woman with the story again, or into someone who knew her.
“Won’t you come in?” Chastity pointed to a door, evidently the only door to her living area. Two floors up and accessible by a ladder only a true Romeo could master.
“I doubt Dwayne would appreciate me being here with you.” Not to mention her parents.
“Dwayne will be here three days from now.”
“Three days? Isn’t your wedding three days away?”
“He will make it.” She seemed sure, yet his absence resonated everywhere. He had staked a claim she held onto while he carried his part away.
Was I here to fill his shoes? Give her someone to share her excitement with until he returned? Or should I write him out of her story with lots of blood and gore?
“Come inside. You will love it here.”
Exactly what I feared. I would love it here. Love her before three days were up because she was my exact opposite, the light to my dark writing moods, the fun to my agony of struggling with a story, the beautiful and brave heroine who dared to live in a building that looked as if it could collapse at any moment. Her blonde curls matched the yellow of my grandfather’s envelopes. Her second-story apartment became Grove’s mountain. One I wanted no one else to know about. And one I wanted to climb.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Colleen L Donnelly put her science education to use for years and then put it behind her to pursue other passions. Her first love is writing and her second is hunting—hunting for that next good story, hunting for relics and antiques, hunting for the next good author to read. An avid believer in work hard/play hard, Colleen splits her time between indoors and out, always busy at something.
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8 comments:
Thank you so much for featuring I HAVE A STORY today.
Thank you for sharing the adventures of Jim and Chastity's unconventional love story!
This looks like a great read. Thanks for sharing.
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