HALLOWEEN BLOG HOP

Anne Greene here:

In keeping with Halloween, and the Blog Hop, Things That Go Bump, I’ve not seen any good suspense movies lately. Nor have I read any good suspense novels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, I’ll discuss the suspense in my own novels. Masquerade Marriage is a Scottish historical set in 1746. The heroine flees from an awful arranged marriage to a sadistic duke. But she has nowhere to hide where the duke can’t find her. He wants her fortune and her ability to bear him a son. Her only way out is to get married. She chooses a name from a secret list of Highland warriors with a price on their heads. The hero seeks only to protect his mother and younger sister from the soldiers who seek their death. When he marries the heroine she gives him the protection of her identity, her wealth, and her castle. In their suspenseful race against death, the unlikely pair discover unexpected love.

 

A Texas Christmas Mystery finds the hero framed for murder. Sparks fly as the lady coastguardsman seeks to arrest the oil rig troubleshooter. She needs to solve her first case, but the handsome Cajun suspect makes her heart race and her toes tingle. He’s worked all his life for his high-paying adventurous job. When the past threatens his future, will he endanger the woman he loves to save himself? This book is filled with suspense. 

In Marriage By Arrangement, why does a handsome, powerful noble of the highest rank in England stoop to marry a mere Lady of Lowland Scotland? 

Are the whispered stories about him true? With his shadowy past and strange behavior, what awful secret does he hide? Can the lady keep her vow to make her marriage happy, unlike that of her parents, or to save her unborn child and her own life, must she arrange for the duke’s death?                               

 

Which book do you think contains the most suspense?

 

Leave a comment to enter for a chance to win an autographed copy of all three books.

 

ANNE GREENE delights in writing about wounded heroes and gutsy heroines. Her second novel, a Scottish historical, Masquerade Marriage, won the New England Reader Choice award, the Laurel Wreath Award, and the Heart of Excellence Award. The sequel Marriage By Arrangement released in December, 2013.  A Texas Christmas Mystery also won several awards. She makes her home in McKinney, Texas. Tim LaHaye led her to the Lord when she was twenty-one and Chuck Swindoll is her Pastor. View Anne’s travel pictures and art work at http://www.AnneGreeneAuthor.com. Anne’s highest hope is that her stories transport the reader to an awesome new world and touch hearts to seek a deeper spiritual relationship with the Lord Jesus. Buy Anne’s books at http://www.PelicanBookGroup.com. Or at http://www.Amazon.com.

 

 

 

 

 

The Gift

THE GIFT
She lived in a quieter time, a more innocent time—no cell phones, no computers, and no television. It was a time when you talked with friends face-to-face, not by texting. She didn’t even have a telephone party-line like the folks in town enjoyed. She lived five miles east of town, walking distance.

There were few cars. People drove horse and buggy and wagons to the downtown square on Saturday nights to chat with one another. Young men rode prancing horses up and down the brick street to show off for the ladies, dressed in their best, smiling from their wagon seats. Styles were slow to change and the look of the prosperous 1920s was still the fashion.

She loved the small town she visited each Saturday after spending the week working hard on the farm. Before dawn she rose to milk cows by hand, then after a hearty breakfast she took her ten minute turn at the sink to cleanse the barn smell and dress for school. A long bus ride later and she ran up the steps to the school house where her mother taught her class.

Then home to milk cows, store the milk in the ice box, and make biscuits for
supper. The family ate together and discussed the day’s events, then sat together
in the evenings, listening to the radio.

She preferred working outdoors with the animals and bringing in the crops, but she did her part in canning, preserving, and pickling. When harvest time arrived, so did all her relatives—to help bring in the crops. As the oldest girl, she worked in the fields and joked with the men.

She was strong, pretty, took care of her younger siblings, and fell in love with her 5th grade teacher.She had a boyfriend, but in those days a girl could only show interest in one man. She chose her 5th grade teacher. He joined the Marines and she waited four years for him to return. They married.

When I was about eight years old, I read their love letters, and became an incurable romantic. She showed me the cameo pin he gave her. And I clomped around the house in her red, high-heeled shoes. We lived in the small farm town she loved. We had a television and a telephone with our own line. We ate together and worked together and I listened to the stories of her young adulthood. She passed her history onto me.

The gift she gave me was precious—a love of history, of times past when life was different. She passed her heritage on to me. She was my grandmother.

I hope you will love my Scottish historical romance, Masquerade Marriage. You can download an ebook or purchase a print copy at www.whiterosepublishing.com. If you like mysteries, you'll love A Texas Christmas Mystery.