GENRE: Historical/adventure
romance
BLURB:
Reid
Haliburton, a skilled gunsmith, wants to control who uses his revolutionary
handgun until a vicious pirate decides the gun will be his. The price of
refusing is Reid’s life and those of his three young sons. Reid’s only chance
to save his sons is to send them away and face the pirate’s wrath alone.
Leena Cullane Adair is
stunned to find three lads hiding in her cart, and, although she only met their
father a week ago, he holds her heart and her dreams, and she will do whatever
it takes to keep him and his sons alive.
Excerpt One:
He picked up the barrel of his new gun and began to polish
it when a hard knock on his door shook him out of his reverie.
A man planted his feet and stood akimbo in the doorway, a
man who obviously knew the intimidating impression his stature presented to
others by his rugged good looks, his burnt mahogany colored hair and eyes. He
announced in a firm voice with an English accent, “My name is Jonas McDever,
and I am the captain of the Scarlet Lion. I have come to see the new weapon you
are working on.”
Reid looked up from his worktable as an uneasiness settled
over him. He recognized the captain’s name and his ship, the Scarlet Lion, as
one reputed to attack and destroy any other ship unfortunate enough to get
within spyglass range. This McDever was a pirate of the worst sort, and he didn’t
care who knew it.
“I dinna ken what ye’re talking about. I have no new weapon
to show ye.”
“I’m not here to argue with you.” …“Perhaps I can offer you
this. I have been watching your sons for the last few days when you take them
to school. Handsome lads. I captain my own ship, the Scarlet Lion, and a fine
ship it is. I have need of another cabin boy. Would one or two of them like to
become cabin boys on my ship?”
Reid whipped around. “Is that idle curiosity…or a threat?”
BUY LINKS:
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Amazon -
https://www.amazon.com/Keeper-Dreams-Susan-Leigh-Furlong-ebook/dp/B0994NWD7M/
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58575240-keeper-of-my-dreams
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Susan Leigh
Furlong was born in the middle of a blinding spring snowstorm at the University
of Michigan, which forced her mother to walk across campus in the snow to the
hospital while in labor. Susan doesn’t remember any of this auspicious
beginning, but it always makes for a good story! As a child she moved across
the country six times to various big cities before the age of fourteen because
of her father’s career in women’s ready-to-wear clothing. At college she met
and married her love, and moved to his small hometown in southern Ohio, and you
couldn’t get her out of there with a crowbar! She taught first grade and fourth
grade and raised her children who did not have to change schools even once.
Creating stories started early in life—as is typical of most writers—even
before she could actually write. Then came handwritten pages stuffed in her
underwear drawer, followed by stories created on a manual typewriter. Her first
computer—a Commodore 64—was replaced by a series of computers and laptops,
which her husband promised she could never fill up the storage space, but she
always did. At age 32 she performed in her first community theater play—Guys
and Dolls—where she quickly realized that she wanted to play ALL the parts,
which is exactly what a writer does. She writes and/or directs church-related
plays and sketches and also performs and sings with a music and drama ministry,
LightReaders.
Her love of
history led her to write two plays about her now hometown, presented in
reader’s theater style by local citizens, followed by two non-fiction books
about the local history published by Arcadia Publishing. She loves to do the
research even though old books and documents make her cough and sneeze! Susan
first discovered romance novels when she won a copy of Velvet Song by Jude
Deveraux at the local bookstore. She reads all varieties of books, but
historical romance is forever her first choice.
Steadfast Will
I Be and By Promise Made were published by The Wild Rose Press in 2019 and 2020
respectively. By Promise Made won the NEST – National Excellence in Story
Telling – for Historical Romance for 2021. Her third book – Keeper of My Dreams
– a continuation of the Cullane family adventures - will be officially released
on September 6, 2021.
CONTACT AND
SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
Susanleighfurlongwriter@gmail.com
Twitter@FurlongLeigh
Facebook –
Facebook.com/SusanLeighFurlong
Website –
www.SusanLFurlong.com
5 comments:
Dawn, Thank you for posting on your blog about Keeper of My Dreams. Your support is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for sharing the excerpt.
I sent in three excerpts. I hope you've been able to read all three so you can get a real feel for the story.
I really like the cover and the excerpt.
Thanks for the great excerpt and blurb! The book sounds fascinating.
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