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"Where honor and danger collide with love" is more than a tag line.
ANGI MORGAN is a USA Today and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author. Her work has finaled in the Romantic Times First Series Book, the Booksellers' Best First Book, the Booksellers' Best Series Romantic Suspense, the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, the Carolyn Readers Choice Award and the Daphne du Maurier. An 11th generation Texan, Angi utilizes her strong heritage to create passionate characters in actual Texas locations who are willing to risk everything for the one they love.
There aren't many flowers in January -- not even where I live in mild weathered (almost all of the year) Victoria (on Vancouver Island in the extreme southwest corner of Canada). But some flowers do start popping up in early February. Two of these early risers are usually the Crocus and Snowdrop.
To get in the mood for the coming of spring, here are some of my Crocus and Snowdrop photos from 2019 and 2020.
Jacqui ❤️ 💐
You'll find Wild West scouts, spies, cardsharps, trick-riding superstars, and more in my stories. My love for historical romance adventures with grit and passion came from watching Western movies while growing up on a cattle farm in northern Canada. I've been nominated for over 20 awards and won the RWA® Golden Heart® and the Laramie® - but my best reward is hearing from readers who have enjoyed my stories.
"Where honor and danger collide with love" is more than a tag line.
ANGI MORGAN is a USA Today and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author. Her work has finaled in the Romantic Times First Series Book, the Booksellers' Best First Book, the Booksellers' Best Series Romantic Suspense, the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, the Carolyn Readers Choice Award and the Daphne du Maurier. An 11th generation Texan, Angi utilizes her strong heritage to create passionate characters in actual Texas locations who are willing to risk everything for the one they love.
In the Afterword of the original Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain wrote:
Some day it may seem worthwhile to take up the story of the younger ones again and see what sort of men and women they turned out to be.
The great author never did revisit his characters as adults. As I read and re-read these books over the years, I couldn't stop asking, what happened? I would not be satisfied until I had an answer.
Tom Sawyer Returns picks up more than a decade after we left him as a carefree lad in a sleepy town on the Mississippi River. It made sense that Tom would eventually leave to seek adventures. History provided a desperate event that would bring him home, determined to be a hero.
Numerous incidents in Tom Sawyer Returns are based on historical reports, one of which alludes to a shadowy conspiracy by Confederate sympathizers to seize control of the Mississippi River.
Put Tom in the middle of a deadly scheme, having to solve a mystery without crucial memories, and you have an exciting plot. But a love story requires more.
In Twain’s book, the character of Becky Thatcher fits the traditional stereotype of the Victorian female: beautiful, helpless, idealized...quite frankly, boring. I wondered, what would a girl like that do when faced with adversity if she were made of more than fluff?
You'll meet other characters featured in Twain's stories, such as Tom's half-brother Sid, Becky's cousin Jeff, Judge Thatcher, Tom's former girlfriend Amy Lawrence, and Alfred Temple, who is still competing with Tom for Becky's affections. They all had bit parts in Twain's original tale. I thoroughly enjoyed expanding on these secondary characters, delving into backstories, and exploring their relationships with Tom and Becky.
See more sneak peek info on my blog and website: www. eeburke.com
Award-winning author E.E. Burke writes romance from the heart woven with history the way it really happened in the wild American West. Her series Steam! Romance and Rails follows the stories of America's railroad dynasties.