This week on the American Mail-Order Bride journey, we travel to Connecticut to meet Edwina and her author, Margaret Tanner. If you need to read the Prequel, setting up the series, you will find that HERE.
Here's how Edwina's story came to be:
Thank you so much for inviting me to your
lovely blog to tell you about Edwina, Bride of Connecticut in the American Mail
Order Bride Series.
I was a last minute inclusion in the
series so I didn’t get to choose my state. My name was put forward by Western
romance author and friend, Susan Horsnell. On the basis that I am
multi-published, and have won an award or two in Historical Romantic fiction,
and have also participated in two Western Anthologies, I was fortunate to be
accepted for this unique endeavour (The
American Mail Order Brides Series, 50 books from 45 authors. Starting on
November 19, there will one book published per day through to January 7, 2016.
Each story is 35K - 40K in length and priced at $2.99.)
Blurb:
Joshua was a happy
bachelor until his scheming sister lands him with a Mail Order Bride. Desperate
to Escape Boston, Edwina accepts the marriage proposal she believes has come
from him. Can a deceived bride, and a reluctant groom, find happiness together?
Excerpt:
“You did what?” Joshua Sinclair glared at his
sister.
“I pretended I was you and advertised for
a Mail Order Bride in the Grooms’
Gazette.” Amy faced him, defiant. “You’ve been on your own too long. Hasn’t
he, Tom?”
“Don’t bring me into this.” Tom grinned at
his wife.
“Damn it woman. You had no right.” Josh
thrust his fingers through his hair, causing the curls to become even more
riotous than normal. “You can damn well have that ridiculous advertisement
removed.”
“It’s too late.” Amy looked pleadingly at
him. “Edwina has already answered and agreed to marry you.”
“Edwina! Matrimony is not on my agenda.
Even if it was, I wouldn’t be marrying some desperate spinster who has been
left on the shelf.”
“She’s from Boston.”
“Boston!” A dagger thrust of pain pierced
his heart. Three years and Maryanne’s betrayal still hurt. He would never trust
another woman.
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Giveaway!
Margaret is
giving away a FREE copy of Edwina - Bride of Connecticut. To enter, please leave a comment
below telling us why you are looking forward to reading Edwina's story and
your email so we may contact you in the event that you win. Good Luck!
BIO:
Margaret Tanner is
an Award Winning Historical Romance Author who has now added Western Historical
Romance to her writing repertoire.
She lives in Australia, is married and has
three grown up sons.
With the encouragement of friend and
Western Romance author, Susan Horsnell, she has fallen in love with writing
Western Historical Romance of the sweet variety. Frontier Australia and frontier America, have
many similarities, isolated communities, a large single male population and a
lack of eligible women, so it wasn’t hard to write in the Western genre.
She has always loved Westerns, soaking up
all the Western TV shows and movies when she was young. Bonanza was her
all-time favourite show. Little Joe Cartwright was her hero. Western Author,
Zane Grey was her favourite author at that time.
Margaret has a short story published in
the Western Romance Anthology, Rawhide ‘N Roses which was a 2015 Rone Finalist.
She has a novella, Christmas Cowboy,
published in the Silver Belles and Stetsons Christmas Anthology. Margaret has just finished writing her
second Western Romance novella.
You can order your download through Amazon
Hi Angela,
ReplyDeleteThank you for asking me to visit your blog.
Thanks for joining me, Margaret! Happy New Year!
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