COVID 19 has changed all of our lives. When I set out to write a book about good fortune and finding treasure, I opted NOT to set it in 2020, but went back a few years to more “normal” times.
The Blue Dragon is what I’ve opted to call a modern historical romance which takes place in 2006. It’s a second chance at love romance between an insecure mixed race (Creole and white), mixed religion (Jewish and Roman Catholic) young woman and a white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant young man. When they met at university, they fell in love, but each wanted something different out of life, and they went their separate ways–him into a career in the NFL, her into the Canadian Armed Forces as a nurse. Fifteen years later, both dream careers in shambles, they meet again, reunited by a lonely old woman’s bequest. Can they set aside their fears and make the relationship work this time?
Here’s the blurb:
True love never dies.
Gravely wounded in Afghanistan, Samantha Collins returns to Canada to discover a previously unknown relative has died and made her heir to the family estate. The bequest consists of a century-old farmhouse and an orange tabby. Alone, having given up on love, marriage, and children, facing a grim future, Sam opts to move into the house until she decides what to do with it. When she opens the door, she gets more than she bargained for. Nobody mentioned Great-aunt Esther was a hoarder.
Following his divorce, Phil Austin returns to South Creek. An architect who prefers restoring old buildings to designing new ones, he’s intrigued to learn one of the area’s century-old houses may be sold. Picturing the house converted to an inn, when Phil knocks on the door, he gets more than he expected. The new owner is the woman he loved and lost fifteen years ago.
Stunned to find the only man she ever loved on her doorstep, Sam is carried away by his ideas for the house. Torn between hope and despair, she agrees to his business proposal. As they renew their friendship and they sift through the trash and treasures Esther Cohen left behind, can they find the courage to open their hearts to one another again?
For those of you who followed my blog, I posted several scenes from the book last spring.
You can pick up a copy of The Blue Dragon for only 99 cents USD from September 1 to September 15, 2020.
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