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Hope this blogs finds y’all doing well!
I’m sure many of you know, but am not sure every person on the blog today knows that I am venturing out into the Young Adult field. The stories are stories of adventure set in the early 1800’s. There is perhaps a little romance, but these are Young Adult stories and so the emphasis in these stories is about friendship.
This is the cover for the new book, and in case you didn’t know this already, I’m writing these stories under the pen name of Genny Cothern.
This is a link to the book: https://tinyurl.com/Good-Eagle-and-Miss-Starling
The news is that we just published the paperback for the book today — it’s not yet up on the Amazon site, but should be there soon. We had published the e-book in the latter part of April and after we had published it, it hit #1 on the Young Adult genre. It was there for only a few days, but they were a great few days for me. Yay!
But, we now have the book (a novella) of about 135 pages in paperback or 77 pages in ebook format.
So, my give-away today is for this particular e-book or if you are a winner,but want only a book in the Historical Romance genre, you may have your pick.
Leaving a post on the blog automatically enters one into the drawing.
I’ll post a blurb about the story so you can have a look at what the book is about.
THE ADVENTURES OF GOOD EAGLE AND MISS STARLING
Montana, 1847
When my life is turned upside down, I have no one to turn to except Uncle Jed, a fur-trader who lives deep in Indian Country; a man I have never met. I was expecting to be greeted by my Uncle Jed at a place called Fort Union, a fur-trading fort some two thousand miles above St. Louis. But, when I finally arrive at the fort, I am met, instead, by an eighteen-year-old Indian, Good Eagle, who swears my uncle has sent him to meet me. Would you trust this boy, a youth only two years older than my sixteen years? I certainly didn’t and I told him so. However, although I was polite, he took offense.
As the steamboat continues its way to my uncle’s fur-trading post, Fort Lewis, the Indian boy, Good Eagle, has declared that my heart has panther’s claws around it. Yet, though he seems to dislike me as much as I do him, because of the promise he gave to my uncle, he has no option but to guard me.
But, when my life is threatened and Good Eagle saves me, I experience a change of heart about this young man; I decide I will “bury the hatchet” and become friends with him. Imagine my surprise when he refuses my offer of friendship.
Can I ever change Good Eagle’s mind about becoming my friend? Or will his first impression of me remain to forever haunt us?
In other news
Have just received the edits back on my latest effort, SHE BRINGS BEAUTY TO ME. Yay!
We hope to have the new book published within 2-4 weeks (hopefully 2).
Here is a blurb of the new story:
SHE BRINGS BEAUTY TO ME
A woman deserted. A troubled warrior. And time ticking down on a passion denied.
When eighteen-year-old Czanna Fehér is forced to flee her home in Hungary in 1855, she journeys with her young brother and sister to Montana in search of her cousin. Mourning for her recently deceased parents, she sings her grief to the mountains, little knowing her song draws the attention of an unseen listener.
From the first moment Stands Strong hears Czanna singing, he is transfixed. When he meets her, he is captivated as much by her dark beauty as he is by her voice.
But, tragedy strikes Czanna’s family again when their hired guide has stolen their money and run. Worse, her father’s servant has gone in search of the scoundrel, leaving Czanna alone, desolate and in charge. Being of the gentry class in Hungary, Czanna knows she and her family cannot survive without help. And, when Stands Strong appears before them, bearing food, she realizes she must trust this Indian to be their guide,
Lakota born, though raised by the Blackfeet, Stands Strong comes from a long line of medicine men, but this legacy seems to have skipped over him. Accepting this, he has become the best scout in his tribe. But, when Czanna attempts to hire Stands Strong as a guide, offering him the “evil gold rock” as payment, he is insulted and suggests marriage to him instead. Czanna refuses him, even though the flame of passion is burning heatedly within their hearts.
Can two people from intensely opposing cultures ever come together? Or are their star-guided paths meant only to briefly cross?
Warning: A sensuous romance that might cause a gal to go West in search of love and adventure.
Well, that’s all for today’s blog. Hope you have enjoyed a peek into these new stories. By the way, I love these two new covers. They are of different genres and they each tell a story of sorts on the cover. Do you have a favorite? If you do, let me know in your post.