Blog Tour: WHERE THE STARS CROSS by Dottie Sines

 

WHERE THE STARS CROSS

Dottie Sines

 

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GENRE:  Historical Romance

 

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BLURB:

 

Inthe depths of the Great Depression, Ellie suffers another crash—that of hermarriage. She’s left struggling to restore her shattered life, feeling asdamaged as the stained-glass panels she refurbishes for Chicago’s historicstructures. While visiting her aunt in Marietta, Ohio, a charming river town,Ellie encounters towboat captain Wyatt and feels a searing attraction to him.But thanks to past and subsequent wounds, her attempts at opening herself tolove seem futile. Her hope for love and her determination to find the place shebelongs are further complicated by her tendency to make impulsive decisions. Inher journey, Ellie draws on an unrealized level of courage and learns she mustidentify her brightest passions in charting her course.

 

 

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ExcerptTwo:

 

Once the world creaked back to a tentative rotation and timeagain began ticking away, Ellie salvaged the remnants of herself and hobbled toher feet. She shoved her hair from her face and brushed away the bits of grasspasted to her arms. How long had she lain there, on this deserted patch ofground? Long enough for the world to have revolved away from the sun. Longenough, apparently, for Earth’s gravity to pull the life from her, because theonly thing she felt or thought or knew was the faint echo of a crippledheartbeat.

 

Ellie hugged her arms and looked to the darkening sky. She’dfallen asleep, obviously, but for all this time? Even amid all the darkness,the stars still twinkled. Damned stars. She’d taken Aunt Lillian’s little fableabout finding one’s place according to where their three stars crossed tooseriously. It had been intended simply as inspiration. Wyatt was gone, so heobviously hadn’t been some fairytale second star. And she never had figured outwhat her would-be third star was.

 

Time to get her heart out of the stars and her head out ofher behind. She’d been selfish. What about all the other people suffering inthe wake of the devastating flood? What about all those who had it much worsethan she during this never-ending Depression? Those were the people she neededto look to the stars for, not her own self-serving wants, so she closed hereyes and made a wish for everyone but herself.

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Dottiescratched out her first fiction as a little kid transfixed by the books sheread all those lazy summer days on the front porch swing. Two of her shortstories have been published in The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park’sliterary journal, Hemingway Shorts, having placed among the top ten entries inits annual short story contests.

 

Wherethe Stars Cross, Dottie’s first novel, is available for purchase at:

 

Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Where-Stars-Cross-Dottie-Sines/dp/1509257373/ref=sr_1_1(where it’s on the Hot New Releases list for 20th century historical romance!)

 

Website:https://www.dottiesines.com/

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555443236996

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/dottie_sines_author/

 

 

 

 

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