I Have A Story
by Colleen L. Donnelly
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GENRE: Historical Romance
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BOOK 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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EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT:
Author's Note: Boy meets Girl. Can he set his writing career aside to help plan her wedding…to another man?
“We have so much to do. You know how much work weddings are.” She pinched her lips. “Well, you probably don’t know. But you will.”
Now it was my turn to blush. She probably hadn’t read my books, but she certainly exhibited an uncanny knack for reading me. “If you mean because I’ve never married…” Or even dated with any frequency…
“It’s okay.” She came close. She smelled like her home, a wash of fresh breezes with a swirl of soft color.
I wanted to cup that pretty face in my hands and stare at it forever.
She patted my arm, more maternally than passionately, sending my fantasy out the window. “You can follow my lead. I know what to do. And… Wait. You’re not in the middle of writing a book right now, are you?”
I was. This one. Everything else could wait. “I’m available,” I lied to her worried expression and to myself. “Just tell me what to do.”
“Wonderful!” She bounced on her toes, long legs exposed beneath shorts far too short for current fashions. Pink shorts, instead of the bland fabric most often available due to a predicted war, dangled half hidden below a billowy shirt I could almost see through. “To start with…” Her voice broke my search for what I couldn’t see. “We need to choose a place for the ceremony, design and send invitations, write an announcement for the newspaper, decide on cake and food, pick and arrange loads of flowers, finish my dress…”
“Wait. All of that? In three days?” I didn’t know a thing about weddings, but I knew a well-executed assassination took more than three days to plan and pull off.
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AUTHOR BIO:
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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