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I HAVE A STORY
Colleen L Donnelly
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GENRE: Historical Romance
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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 her hero becomes a true hero.
In three days the first girl I had ever fallen for would marry another man. Right here. Their feet where mine stood now. Not even Hitler made me shudder as much as that did.
I faded back from the water’s edge and sank down onto the grass. Knees up, I rested my chin on arms I folded across their tops. A soft breeze swept the scent of damp earth, soaked rocks, and glistening waves in my direction.
Minutes moved like hours as I immersed myself in the setting that had changed my grandfather’s life. As I breathed, tasted, and experienced the peninsula the way he said I should, Shale Lake’s shimmering surface became a screen where my life played in slow motion, a monochromatic and monotonal series of events with no plot and few highlights. Until Chastity…
Time stopped then, and Seth’s fears became mine. What if I had fallen in love? Could that happen in less than a day? Or was I merely intoxicated by her colorful world, her quirky style, her large blue eyes and cute expressions? Would real love dare to take her away from her fiancé? Or would it spend three divine days in her presence and then walk away.
My new heroic side sprang up once again, a passion to be and do good for her. My baser nature countered with another type of passion that yearned to be with her. One side of me would scale the mountain, the other would tunnel beneath it.
I chose the high road. I would love Chastity by doing what was best for her. My brand new heroic side could manage that for three days.
“Yes,” I shouted my charge to the lake as I stood and then turned. And looked into blue eyes surrounded by curly blonde locks. “Chastity…”
My heart hammered. My baser nature struck up a celebration at my instantly weakened resolve.
“I thought I might find you here,” she said as she approached.
My heroic side faltered.
Heroes aren’t heroes because they are clever or brave, but because they love someone or something deeply.
Heroes give. They don’t take. The closer she came, the more I wanted to take. No, I hissed inwardly as she came near.
Her adorable expression pinched with concern when she stopped in front of me. “You look awful, Jim. Didn’t you sleep well?”
My raging battle waned. “It’s just some writing issues…”
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Colleen L Donnelly 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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Thank you so much for featuring I HAVE A STORY.
It’s a pleasure to have you here Colleen! Congratulations on this exciting release!
Thank you so much! Your site is gorgeous and sets a lovely mood for me and your readers!
Im looking forward to reading this book. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Michael, and I hope you get some smiles from these characters!
Sounds like a good read.
Thank you, Marcy! It’s a fun story!
The blurb sounds great.
Hi, Sherry, thank you for the encouragement! Blurbs and synopses are so hard to write!
Thank you, Danita, for the opportunity to be seen on your lovely site! It’s gorgeous! Sometimes my comments don’t post well on web pages, something I have tried to remedy, so I hope my replies show up here! Thank you again