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I HAVE A STORY

Colleen L Donnelly

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GENRE: Historical Romance

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BLURB:

JimTurner writes crime but doesn’t live it. He respects his grandfather’s tales ofheroes but doesn’t believe them. When his failing grandfather sends him to aremote peninsula to write the end of his own heroic love story, Jim includes awar criminal interview to maintain his edge.

Chastityis an anomaly, a misfit in pre-WWII culture as well as in Jim’s life. Herspritely charm and endearing features turn Jim’s world upside down, especiallywhen she reveals his grandfather’s peninsula as the site of her upcomingwedding.

Dogood journalists flee when their interviewee is murdered? Do heroes writefiancés out of another’s story and themselves in? “The End” become the hardestwords for Jim to write.

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EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT

Author'sNote: Boy meets Girl. When it’s time to lay his heart on the table.

Itwas time to speak, say all the right things, and ask the pertinent questions.Her actions and the look on her face told me she felt as strongly about me as Idid about her.

“Chastity,”I began. Everything inside me wanted to drop down to one knee for this hallowedmoment, but I stayed in my seat. “We have…”

Turbulencereturned to her eyes. “Wait. Let me talk first.”

Ineeded to swallow but couldn’t. The words that expressed my profession of lovegummed together like a wad in my throat. I needed to say them. This couldn’twait…

“Youneed to hear this. I hope you will understand…” she continued.

“Margie!”A woman’s voice rose from the yard below.

Chastity’seyes widened.

Istraightened in my seat. “Don’t mind whoever that is. Probably some saleswomanfor the war effort, searching for one of your neighbors.” I wished whoever itwas away from Chastity’s house. The moment I had been waiting for was finallyhere, and the girl of my dreams seemed uncertain about something.

“Margie,”the woman called again, her voice carrying through the open windows and door.

Chastity’sface paled. “That’s my mom.” She stared wide-eyed at the window.

“Yourname is Margie?” I asked in a whisper. This young woman was far more a Chastitythan a Margaret.

Chastitystole a peek at the ground below. “My dad is with her.” She gave her billowyshirt and bright shorts a dismayed grimace. “They can’t see me like this. Ineed to change.”

Amale voice—her father’s, apparently—also called for Margie. She disappearedbehind one of her fabric walls where a ruckus ensued I could only surmise wasthe shedding of her current outfit for something even more discreet. Parents ornot, I still wished the two visitors away. They couldn’t have chosen a worsetime for a visit.

“Howabout this?” She appeared in front of me, her body completely hidden beneath alength of fabric loosely wound around her, the end draped over a shoulder. Hadshe torn down one of her material walls?

Thepanic on her face softened my irritation at her parents’ interruption. “Theywill never guess you are hiding something,” I assured her, though I knew fromwriting crime books that too much denial was a sure sign of guilt. “You looklovely.”

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Review:

A famous crime fiction writer hasone story he had to tell—his grandfather’s. In a strange town, a woman behindhim says, “I have a story.” Then somehow this cutthroat writer ended up meetinga beautiful pregnant woman and was coerced into helping her with her wedding,which was something that he knew nothing about.

“Here I was, Jim Turner, renownedauthor of suspense, plotting greenery suitable for tender nuptials instead ofmass murder.”

Can the crime writer write aboutlove?

Since meeting Chastity, Jim hasquestioned everything.

“What if I had fallen in love?Could that happen in less than a day? Or was I merely intoxicated by hercolorful 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 3divine days in her presence and then walk away?”

The journal narration wasthoughtful, deep, and lovely. You get swept up by the words quite easily. Jimundoubtedly falls in love with Chastity and was willing to give up everythingto be with her or walk away forever to save her. It gets very poetic, oftenrepeating the same notions and emotions over and over. It gets to be quite along read after a while. We basically have this hardboiled crime writer openingup and showing his beating heart for the first time ever. It was a pretty niceread overall.

Rating:3 stars

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

ColleenL Donnelly put her science education to use for years and then put it behindher to pursue other passions. Her first love is writing and her second ishunting—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/playhard, Colleen splits her time between indoors and out, always busy atsomething.

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