Keeping secrets ~ a snippet from Shana's Guardian

My six (okay, please don't count this week!) sentences this Sunday are from my new release, Shana's Guardian .  The following conversation takes place between the heroine, Shana, and her best friend, Beth.


“You’re not really going to the gypsy village, are you?”

“Of course I am!  And so are Margery, the Johnson triplets, and Mary Anne.”

“How will you sneak out?”  Shana hoped Beth wouldn’t ask for help in covering for her absence.  It suddenly occurred to her that she ran the risk of disobeying Daman’s order to behave.  She knew Beth and Margery were about to disobey their husbands, but she was keeping it to herself.  Would Daman be angry if she kept her friends’ secrets?  Her heart nearly stopped.  Yes, he would be livid.


Blurb:

Shana's twenty-fourth birthday hovers on the horizon like a death sentence. She's the oldest eligible woman in Jackson Settlement, and she dreads the day her guardian, Uncle Daman, announces her marriage.

Her feelings for her widowed uncle are complicated, especially because they aren't related by blood. Daman is a strict man who wields a mighty paddle, but Shana has grown to love him wholeheartedly in the years after her parents' death.

To her surprise, he proposes they get married. Of course, he's upfront with her about his expectations in a wife. If she marries him, she'll be subject to spankings and more intimate discipline when she misbehaves.

Will Shana accept his terms of marriage? Even worse, will the threats looming outside the settlement barriers doom their relationship before it even has a chance to begin?


Shana's Guardian is available on Blushing Books and will hit Amazon and B&N soon.


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