HISTORICAL
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Highland soldier Callum MacDonell
battled lowland Covenanters at the
service of the King. Now charged with
hunting an assassin, his journey would
lead not to justice, but to a
murderer's passionate Covenanter
sister, Mari McEwan.
Betrayed
and abandoned by the man she loved,
Mari faced judgment by a tribunal of
her people demanding she name the
father of her unborn child, or be
exiled from everything she
knows.
Only an
enemy soldier could save her life—and
her heart.
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Emma Madding walks up to the door of a
remote waterfront cliff house in
upstate New York, and into the life of
recluse Benjamin Stark. A typewriter
girl, she has been hired to transcribe
his weathered journal and the memories
his scarred hand can no longer write
down. Stark is a rugged adventurer now
back from the Klondike Gold Rush,
where he found gold and tragedy, too.
With the public hungry
for gold rush stories and guidebooks,
he agrees to chronicle his adventures.
Working together sparks turbulent
emotions for both. Benjamin tries not
to love Emma, for the truth of his
past will drive her away. Emma longs
for love, but she has her own secret.
Love conquers, but cannot protect.
Forced apart, the two lovers must
battle a world fueled by money and
power.
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Maggie MacLaren longs to leave her
home town, even if she must quell
her attraction to rugged steelworker
Jake O'Neill. When Andrew Adair
walks into Maggie's library, he
sweeps her into his world of wealth
and power, where at last dreams seem
possible. However, Andrew's world is
not all it appears to be.
High
above town, reclusive young widow
Allison Kimball arrives at her
wealthy family's mountain resort
home to find tucked into her
carpetbag a love letter. So begins a
series of secret epistles and
midnight trysts with a man known
only by his cryptic signature, "D."
Their love story unfolds to reveal a
truth that will threaten to tear
them apart as their world comes
crashing down in the Johnstown Flood
of 1889.
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A stranger appears on Ana
Martin’s Galveston doorstep,
summoned by her father before
his untimely death. When Ana
boards a train bound for her
uncle’s vast hacienda, Eduardo
is there to see her safely to
her new home in the stark desert
landscape of northern Mexico.
Eduardo’s
passionate ideals set him at
odds with the corrupt Mexican
government as his writings fuel
a revolution and draw Ana
closer. But it is Carlos, the
dashing rodeo rider and freedom
fighter, who touches her soul,
setting Ana Martin on a journey
that will test her strength and
forge her destiny.
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Coming Summer 2013:
Book 2 will tell Duncan's story.
Excerpt:
Invergarry,
Scotland, April 1679
On
the night before battle, a Highland
chief would choose his best men for
the Ghillie Callum, or Sword Dance.
Each man placed two swords before
him in the sign of a cross. One
sword represented the soldier's own
sword, and the other the sword of
his enemy. As the pipes played in
cadence, the dance would begin. With
agile precision and power the
warriors' feet would tap deftly
around the crossed swords. Plaids
would fly, as would the spirits of
all who looked on until hearts
pounded in sync with the
bodhrán. According to legend,
if a warrior's foot touched the
sword, he would surely be wounded or
killed in the battle to follow.
Outside of
the castle, a crowd cleared to make
room for the dancers. Having been
called, Duncan took his place before
a pair of crossed swords. Soldiers
from all over Clan MacDonell land
had gathered to make ready to
descend to the lowlands in service
of the king. They would quell
rebellious Covenanters and root out
their radical leaders.
Peppered
amid the crowd, small fires bathed
the night in a warm amber light that
caught languid ribbons of smoke.
Duncan breathed in the comforting
scent of charred peat while he
waited for the others to get into
position. One still form in the
crowd drew his eye. Jenny MacRuer's
fair face shone with a smile that
made him forget himself and smile
back. By the time the reedy drone of
the bagpipes slid up to their
pitches, he had found the good sense
to look elsewhere.
©
Copyright 2013 J.L. Jarvis, All
Rights Reserved.
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Bio:
J.L. Jarvis graduated from
the University of Illinois and worked in
opera and musical theatre (New York City
Opera, Houston Grand Opera, national
tours of Broadway shows, and summer
stock). When she tired of starving, she
attended the University of Houston,
where she obtained a teaching
certificate, a law degree, and a love of
research and writing. A year of family
law practice convinced her that she
should instead teach and write, which
she now happily does.
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