by Rain Trueax
One of the sharing things we like during the holidays is give or exchange gifts. As part of that tradition, I put some of my Christmas oriented eBooks on sale in Amazon. The sale lasts until the New Year. Now, 99¢ isn't exactly free to the reader, but it virtually is to the writer. As Amazon takes most of the price (70% + their normal nominal charge). We like to do it with the hope some new reader will find a book they'd never tried and maybe find some holiday cheer.
The poster shows the five books on sale. Four of them are novellas, two historicals (which are books 5 and 8 in the Arizona Dreaming series) and two contemporaries; but this year, we have a fifth, which is a full length novel (Book 2 in Arizona Dreaming). All stand alone but often have secondary characters from earlier books.
While Christmas is not central to The Marshal's Lady, it is important in the development of relationships. As a father, Marshal Cordell O'Brian, who has been kept from his daughter, is trying to finally establish a connection with 9-year old Grace as she is sent to him in Tucson. Will she ever accept him as her father?
Priscilla Wesley, the woman he is attracted to, but knows it'll never work out, has taken Grace under her wing and now is trying to teach them both about the joys of a holiday neither has really known.
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Snippet from The Marshal's Lady, as Cord takes on a new responsibility to the laughter of his deputy.
“You’re doing what?” Rafe asked with a laugh.
“You heard me and don’t bother making jokes.”
“No jokes but come on. Geronimo is supposedly signing a peace treaty soon, but he hasn’t yet. There are always renegade bands just looking for easy pickings.”
“I am not easy pickings.”
“Give me a chance to adjust to this.” Rafe chuckled again and leaned back on two legs of his chair. “You are going out Old Spanish Trail then up in the Rincons to cut a Christmas tree?”
“What? You heathens don’t cut trees?” Cord asked finding an old scarf to wrap around his neck and cover his ears if it got too cold. Where the desert floor wasn’t too bad in December, if he had to go above four thousand feet, there’d likely be snow. As he remembered it, there was a slot canyon where pines grew of the right size. It’s where he’d head, hoping he could avoid going higher.
“When we cut a tree, it’s to build a home. Hell, we even revere flowers as sacred. A tree oughta be more so.” His smile said he took none of it seriously.
“Well it’ll be decorated up real pretty until it gets cut up and burned in a fire. That seems special to me.”
“Want me to go with you?”
“For what, to laugh? No, I want you to stay here and keep an eye on the town. Sheriff Adams is out of sight again, most likely drunk in the backroom of a bar somewhere or maybe in one of the girls’ rooms. Whatever the case and wherever he is, he’s not answering to anything.”
“No surprise in that. Why doesn’t the damn town get rid of him?”
Cord shrugged as he buttoned his coat. Outside the drizzle was cold. Any direction he went, this wasn’t going to be much fun. Usually when he got stuck with such hunts they were to go after a bad guy. Who’d have figured it’d be to chop down a six or seven foot pine tree.
“All right, I’ll do it, but I’d rather ride into the mountains and let you stay here and look after town,” Rafe protested one last time.
“And have you feel you had damaged some ancestor’s special something? Not a chance.”
“We could both go.”
“I told you why we won’t.”
“Are they picking up Evans today?”
“Supposedly but that was supposedly yesterday too.”
“I gotta admit I’m glad your girlfriend got Ben off the hook.”
“She’s not my girlfriend, not my friend, and yes, I am too. Judge Emerson was still chuckling as he delivered the orders.”
“She has a way about her.”
“The kicker was she’s hiring Ben, which will work fine so long as he doesn’t drink.”
“James’ll keep an eye on him. He likes James. He likes Miss Wesley even more.”
“Hopefully it’ll work out for them all.” He had a few reservations mostly connected to his jaw, which had almost gone back to normal, but still hurt when he bit down wrong on something.
“Well watch out up there. See you tonight.”
Links in Amazon for eReaders:
The Marshal's Lady-- https://www.amazon.com/Tucson-Moon-OBrians-Arizona-Historicals-ebook/dp/B00GYL9DVQ
The two historical novellas both have older heroines. They have given up on love but has love given up on them:
Rose's Gift-- https://www.amazon.com/Roses-Gift-Arizona-OBrians-Book-ebook/dp/B00T13IID8/
Frederica's Outlaw -- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MYXKWAG
And then come the contemporary novellas, both with Christmas rather prominent.
In A Montana Christmas, the heroine (from an earlier full length novel, From Here to There, has it mind that a ranch Christmas is a time to heal her husband's family rifts. Or will it only create more pressure?-- https://www.amazon.com/Montana-Christmas-Rain-Trueax-ebook/dp/B00AOU0IQ2
In Diana's Journey, a retired teacher is facing a change in her life. With so many lost memories, Christmas is the last time she wants to think about. Can it prove healing for her in a small southern Utah community? -- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M5IA26Y
3 comments:
Do you have a paperback copy of the Marshal's woman?
we need to update the paperbacks since Create Space went down and the paperbacks are made through Amazon. It was originally Tucson Moon and the paperback has that name. Most of the paperbacks are not with current images. :( We've been behind.
The book though is the same inside. Just we decided it might have more appeal with a title that fit the book, which The Marshal's Lady does.
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